Straw Men and Their Followers: The return of biological race by Evelynn M. Hammonds
Distinctio
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“They have characterized those ascribing to the view that race is socially constructed as
'race deniers' –people who refuse to acknowledge what any child can see– that human
beings can be lumped together in groups by skin color, hair type, eye shape and color, head
shape and body type.”
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“In his cautionary tale, he recuperates race as nothing more that a useful heuristic– a useful
shorthand– for obvious phenotypic and genetic diversity.”
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“The book generated extensive critiques by historians, social scientists and journalists.”
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“[...] imprecise concept for those studying human variation within biology, genetics and
medicine.”
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“To put it more abstractly, human physical variation is correlated; and correlation contains
information.
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“At a smaller scale, three million Basques do as well; to they are a race as well. Race is
merely a shorthand that enables us to speak sensibly, though with no great precision, about
genetic rather than cultural or political differences.”
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“Most scientists are thoughtful, liberal-minded and socially aware people.
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“But through it, we may be able to write the genetic recipe for the fair hair of a Norwegian,
the black-verging-on purple skin of a Solomon Islander, the flat face of an Inuit, and the
curved eyelid of a Han Chinese.”
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