
RACE, SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
by Kenan Malik
A second extract from the talk I gave last week on ‘Why both sides are wrong in the race debate’. I posted the first extract yesterday. For a fuller version of the argument see my book Strange Fruit. THE DEBATE ABOUT RACE IS NOT A DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER DIFFERENCES exist between human populations. Jon Entine, a staunch defender of the idea of race, defines race as ‘human biodiversity’. That is meaningless. No one, on either side of the debate, would deny […]
Categories: Race & Immigration, Science & Technology • Tags: armand leroi, black identity, diversity, genealogy, genetics, identity politics, joseph harker, pluralism, race realism, racial science, rick kittles