Sentences with phrase «what racial categories»

You begin by learning about the history of the creation of race, what racial categories actually are, where they came from, what they mean.

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What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).
What to expect in the future: Elimination of all ethnic and racial categories in favor of individual genotyping for disease risk.
Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»
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