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Racism, not race : answers to frequently asked questions / Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]Description: xxiii, 290 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231200660
  • 0231200668
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Contents:
Introduction: What Are Race, Racism, and Human Variation? -- How Did Race Become Biological? -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Genetics and Race -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Racism -- Why Do Races Differ in Disease Incidence? -- Life History, Aging, and Mortality -- Athletics, Bodies, and Abilities -- Intelligence, Brains, and Behaviors -- Driving While Black and Other Deadly Realities of Institutional and Systemic Racism -- DNA and Ancestry Testing -- Race Names and "Race Mixing" -- A World Without Racism? -- Conclusions.
Summary: "We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we ask the right questions and focus on clear answers. What, exactly, is race? Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman illuminate the idea of race so that people who want to confront the topic of racial injustice can do so with the necessary conceptual tools. Most people think race is real, they argue, and it is. But race is not real in the way that most of us have grown up to think of it. Race is not natural, fixed, or based on biology. Instead, they continue, racism created the idea of race, the idea of race has real effects, and while human genetic variation is biologically real, it is not race. The book is based on evidence from biological and social science. It is composed of twelve question-begging chapters, which engage topics such as the origins of race, race and genetics, the forms of racism, race and health, race and ability, institutional racism, DNA and ancestry testing, "race mixing," race and politics, and what it means to be an antiracist. The book is ideally suited for people want to understand more about what race is, where it came from, and how to confront its pernicious effects, in a format that is clear, direct, and can be used as a model to defend one's antiracist position"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The science on race is clear. Common categories like "Black," "white," and "Asian" do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science, it is all too significant in the day-to-day lives of racialized people across the globe. Inequities in health, wealth, and an array of other life outcomes cannot be explained without referring to "race"--but their true source is racism . What do we need to know about the pseudoscience of race in order to fight racism and fulfill human potential?

In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference. They demonstrate that the ideology of racism created races and show why the inequalities ascribed to race are in fact caused by racism.

Graves and Goodman provide persuasive and timely answers to key questions about race and racism for a moment when people of all backgrounds are striving for social justice. Racism, Not Race shows readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-277) and index.

Introduction: What Are Race, Racism, and Human Variation? -- How Did Race Become Biological? -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Genetics and Race -- Everything You Wanted to Know About Racism -- Why Do Races Differ in Disease Incidence? -- Life History, Aging, and Mortality -- Athletics, Bodies, and Abilities -- Intelligence, Brains, and Behaviors -- Driving While Black and Other Deadly Realities of Institutional and Systemic Racism -- DNA and Ancestry Testing -- Race Names and "Race Mixing" -- A World Without Racism? -- Conclusions.

"We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we ask the right questions and focus on clear answers. What, exactly, is race? Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman illuminate the idea of race so that people who want to confront the topic of racial injustice can do so with the necessary conceptual tools. Most people think race is real, they argue, and it is. But race is not real in the way that most of us have grown up to think of it. Race is not natural, fixed, or based on biology. Instead, they continue, racism created the idea of race, the idea of race has real effects, and while human genetic variation is biologically real, it is not race. The book is based on evidence from biological and social science. It is composed of twelve question-begging chapters, which engage topics such as the origins of race, race and genetics, the forms of racism, race and health, race and ability, institutional racism, DNA and ancestry testing, "race mixing," race and politics, and what it means to be an antiracist. The book is ideally suited for people want to understand more about what race is, where it came from, and how to confront its pernicious effects, in a format that is clear, direct, and can be used as a model to defend one's antiracist position"-- Provided by publisher.

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