October 14, 2003

social constructs

I ran across this statement on biological aspects of race by the AAPA (American Association of Physical Anthropologists) the other day, and I found it so reasonable, commonsensical, and counter to the general drift of things today. The statements eleven points are offered "as revisions of the 1964 UNESCO statement on race." I know it's not political correct, in the old sense of the term, to suggest that concepts like race, gender, and class are social constructs, but they are. Perhaps I'm just a bit old fashioned.

Posted by jim at October 14, 2003 07:56 AM | TrackBack
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I cited that same article in this post last week.

Posted by: Kerim Friedman on October 18, 2003 06:24 AM

Sorry, Kerim, I remember reading your entry, but I didn't click on the link. I found the article in Google searching on something else. Hmm, strange how things work out.

Posted by: jim on October 18, 2003 06:41 PM

I didn't mean to imply that you had failed to cite me - I was just commenting on the coincedence. For all I know, I saw the link somewhere else myself, although I think it was also a Google search...

Posted by: Kerim Friedman on October 21, 2003 08:28 PM

I think this is stupid!!!!!

Posted by: Michael Jackson on December 16, 2004 12:31 PM
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