{"id":16336,"date":"2011-09-18T02:44:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2011-09-18T02:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T02:59:53","slug":"the-biggest-lie-about-race-that-its-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16336","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Root<\/a>
\n2011-07-26<\/p>\n

Jen\u00e9e Desmond-Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n

Dorothy Roberts<\/a> says race is a social and political construct, and she won’t rest until we know it.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama<\/a> or Tiger Woods<\/a>. There’s a reason questions about ethnicity on the census and college applications feel impossible to an increasing number of Americans. There’s a reason you can be black in the United States, colored<\/a> in South Africa<\/a> and something else entirely in Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Dorothy Roberts<\/a>, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/em>, it’s because, despite centuries of efforts to treat race as if it’s a biological category, it is no more than social construction\u2014created to oppress people\u2014that changes with place, time and perspective.<\/p>\n

The Root<\/em> talked to Roberts about the profit that’s behind the re-emergence of myths about race, the impact for African Americans and health, and how we can continue to talk about it, minus the long-standing lies.<\/p>\n

The Root<\/strong>: Fatal Invention<\/em> is an attempt to correct major misunderstandings and myths about race. Explain what race is and what it isn’t.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Roberts<\/strong>: I can say very definitively that race is an invented political system; it is not a natural biological condition of human beings. The human species is a single race.<\/strong> It is not biologically divided up into distinguishable races…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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