{"id":19692,"date":"2012-01-09T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T06:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:26:15","slug":"the-race-myth-why-we-pretend-race-exists-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19692","title":{"rendered":"The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780452286580,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plume an imprint of Penguin<br \/>\nJune 2005<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\n5.35 x 7.99in<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780452286580<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu\/faculty\/joseph-l-graves-jr-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph L. Graves<\/a><\/strong>, Professor &amp; Associate Dean for Research<br \/>\nJoint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering<br \/>\n<em>North Carolina A&amp;T State University &amp; University of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780452286580,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/static\/covers\/all\/0\/8\/9780452286580H.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves proves once and for all that it doesn\u2019t. Through accessible and compelling language, he makes the provocative argument that science cannot account for the radical categories used to classify people, and debunks ancient race-related fallacies that are still held as fact, from damaging medical profiles to misconceptions about sports. He explains why defining race according to skin tone or eye shape is woefully inaccurate, and how making assumptions based on these false categories regarding IQ, behavior, or predisposition to disease has devastating effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Demonstrating that racial distinctions are in fact social inventions, not biological truths<\/strong>, <em>The Race Myth<\/em> brings much-needed, sound science to one of America\u2019s most emotionally charged debates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America Plume an imprint of Penguin June 2005 320 pages 5.35 x 7.99in Paperback ISBN: 9780452286580 Joseph L. Graves, Professor &amp; Associate Dean for Research Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering North Carolina A&amp;T State University &amp; University of North Carolina, Greensboro Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2039,8,17,394,20],"tags":[7847,632,7846],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-joseph-graves","tag-joseph-l-graves","tag-joseph-l-graves-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}