RE: race is a social construct

From: Eugene Matusov (ematusov@udel.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 19:59:16 PST


Dear Peter-

 

Thanks for sending the article but I can't get access to it. Can you
copy and paste it in a message, please?

 

Thanks,

 

Eugene

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Farruggio [mailto:pfarr@uclink4.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:08 PM
To: ARN-L@listsrva.CUA.EDU
Subject: race is a social construct

 

Apropros the periodic discussions of intelligence testing, here's an
interesting interview with Joseph Graves, whose work refutes that of the
Jensenites on biological grounds. Here's the URL for the NY Times
article along with two introductory snippets....

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/health/genetics/01CONV.html?pagewanted
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January 1, 2002
Races as the Same Machine in Different Colors
By LINDA VILLAROSA

Despite the American obsession with race, growing numbers of experts
believe that it is a meaningless concept, at least as far as medicine
goes. Dr. J. Craig Venter, the president of Celera Genomics, which
recently completed a sequence of the chemical letters in the human
genome, has said it bluntly: "It is disturbing to see reputable
scientists and physicians even categorizing things in terms of race."
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In his new book "The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race
at the Millennium" (Rutgers University Press), Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr.,
a professor of evolutionary biology and African-American studies at
Arizona State University, argues that races do not exist and that race
is simply a social and political construct that the world would be
better without.



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