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Race: no such thing.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review)
Vincent Sarich & Frank Miele Race: The Reality of Human Differences. Westview Press, 320 pages, $27.50
What response would you get were you to ask almost any college student or member of the current, self-identified American intelligentsia, "What is this society's most serious problem?" Almost certainly, a large proportion of your eligible interviewees would give this answer without hesitation: "Race!" But here is an oddity: The same interviewees who answer your question with "Race!" will assure you, also without hesitation, that there is no such thing. They will maintain that for humans the concept of "race" is meaningless: that there are no biologically ...
- The great race debate.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) Shermer, Michael March 22, 2005 700+ words
...Two reviews of Race: The Reality of Human Differences by Vincent Sarich...the topic of race (Race and I...hence no human races. This is a public...category--'race'--so as to...anthropology of human differences, on what the...
- Facing race.(Race: The Reality of Human Differences)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: National Review Seligman, Dan April 19, 2004 700+ words
Race: The Reality of Human Differences, by Vincent Sarich and...academics telling us that race is meaningless--a...in any sense unreal. Races, say Sarich and Miele...evolutionary logic to argue that race differences could not...
- The Pioneer Fund and the scientific study of human differences.
- Magazine article from: Albany Law Review Rushton, J. Philippe September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Jews"? E. Is Truth About Race No Defense? A Personal Note...The Nature-Nurture Wars B. Race-Realist v. Hermeneuticists...is the scientific study of human differences. Instead, I find that my...the present writer's book Race, Evolution, and Behavior...
- The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 24, 1994 700+ words
THE EVOLUTION OF RACISM: HUMAN DIFFERENCES AND THE USE AND ABUSE OF SCIENCE...notion. The notion--that races are biologically different...the scientific dispute over race, from the Victorians to the...evolutionary destiny as a "master race" and "outcompete" inferior...
- Unequal by nature: A geneticist's perspective on human differences.
- Magazine article from: Daedalus Crow, James F. January 1, 2002 700+ words
...A news headline at the time made a similar point: Are We All One Race? Modern Science Says So. In the article that followed, the author quoted geneticist Kenneth Kidd: "Race is not biologically definable, we are far too similar." Venter...
- Acknowledging Human Differences While Appreciating Diversity.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly Holloway, Eddie October 16, 2000 700+ words
The author will lead a half-day Leadership Training Institute workshop, "Acknowledging Human Differences while Appreciating Diversity" on Wednesday, December 6 from 1:30 -- 5:00 pm during Congress of Cities in Boston. The workshop...
- The origins of human differences.(development of human behavior)
- Magazine article from: Daedalus Bateson, Patrick September 22, 2004 700+ words
With increasing frequency the media report the discovery of genes for distinct human characteristics, such as athletic prowess or male promiscuity. Yet it is obvious that experience, education, and culture make a big difference in how people behave, whatever their genetic inheritance. Why is it
- The straw man of 'race'.
- Magazine article from: World and I Entine, Jon September 1, 2001 700+ words
...differences between humans. Race has no biological reality...Natalie Angier in "Do Races Differ? Not Really...biological groups or 'races' in any but the most...misleading. MYTHS ABOUT HUMAN DIFFERENCES So, what's behind...popularly known as "race," is broached. After...
