Looks like I’m not the only one fed up with the conflation of social and biological concepts of race November 19, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in Science, bigotry.trackback
Atrios weighs in on the topic of race-as-a-category. He’s right on, of course. My prediction: his comments, just like mine on the same topic, will be decried by those who would prefer to downplay the very real differences between race-as-social-concept and race-as-biological-concept. Naturally, those same people will continue to pretend that the social realities of racism don’t affect the scientific discussion on that topic. Such claims do a disservice both to social realities and to science.
As an aside, and going along with Atrios, I haven’t seen anything like a legitimate refutation of Gould’s argument in The Mismeasure of Man.
[...] I suspect most of my readers won’t be the least surprised by my analysis, as I’ve been here before. But if you’re not convinced, read Gould’s Mismeasure of Man. He lays out quite plainly [...]