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Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race (2005)
| Venue: | American Psychologist |
| Citations: | 49 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Smedley05raceas,
author = {Audrey Smedley and Brian D. Smedley},
title = {Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race},
journal = {American Psychologist},
year = {2005},
pages = {16--26}
}
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Abstract
Racialized science seeks to explain human population dif-ferences in health, intelligence, education, and wealth as the consequence of immutable, biologically based differ-ences between “racial ” groups. Recent advances in the sequencing of the human genome and in an understanding of biological correlates of behavior have fueled racialized science, despite evidence that racial groups are not genet-ically discrete, reliably measured, or scientifically mean-ingful. Yet even these counterarguments often fail to take into account the origin and history of the idea of race. This article reviews the origins of the concept of race, placing the contemporary discussion of racial differences in an anthropological and historical context. Psychological science has a long and controversialhistory of involvement in efforts to measure andexplain human variation and population differ-ences. Psychologists such as Jensen (1974), Herrnstein
Keyphrases
social problem social construction historical perspective racial group biological correlate historical context human population dif-ferences racial difference science seek contemporary discussion population differ-ences recent advance human genome andexplain human variation psychological science
