Day: May 25, 2013

  • At Peace With Many Tribes The New York Times 2013-05-19 Carol Kino HUDSON, N.Y. — One sunny afternoon early this month Jeffrey Gibson paced around his studio, trying to keep track of which of his artworks was going where. Luminous geometric abstractions, meticulously painted on deer hide, that hung in one room were about to…

  • Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…