
What's the Use of Race?
How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by di...
How race as a category—reinforced by new discoveries in genetics—is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
The post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by di...