{"id":35835,"date":"2013-05-26T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/the-mythology-of-race.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:46:26","slug":"the-mythology-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/the-mythology-of-race.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mythology of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
'Race clearly has a biological element — because we have awarded it one.<\/b> Race is no more dependent on skin color today than it was on "Frankishness" in Emerson's day. Over history of race has taken geography, language, and vague impressions as its basis.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Are there biological differences between people? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0But which differences are significant enough to draw a line and say, "On that side you are Race A, on this side you are Race B," tends to be answered by what axe one has to grind, who has the power, and who wants to be included with it. And the proof of that is where the "lines" have been drawn down through history.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Define "race"? Easy! It's, um… Well you see, uh…\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’<\/a>
\n In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

'Race clearly has a biological element — because we have awarded it one. Race is no more dependent on skin color today than it was on "Frankishness" in Emerson's day. Over history of race has taken geography, language, and vague impressions as its basis.' Are there biological differences between people? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0But which differences are … Continue reading “The Mythology of Race”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,350,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-civil-liberties","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/the-us-census-and-race.html","url_meta":{"origin":35835,"position":0},"title":"The US Census and Race","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Jun-15 8:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking back over historical timeframes at the US Census, the basis for identifying the race of individuals -- especially for blacks -- varied widely over time (and often had a high level of subjectivity from the census taker). 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