{"id":26077,"date":"2012-10-19T01:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26077"},"modified":"2016-06-11T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T19:58:15","slug":"race-is-constructed-race-is-biologically-meaningless-race-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26077","title":{"rendered":"Race is constructed. Race is biologically meaningless. Race is power."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The claims of modern genetics notwithstanding, race remains a biologically meaningless concept of human categorization. Race simply has no traceable genetic essence, and the proliferation of racial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> testing represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of race rather than the neutral application of scientific principles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christian B. Sundquist, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=26068\" target=\"_blank\">The Meaning of Race in the DNA Era: Science, History and the Law<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Temple Journal of Science, Technology &amp; Environmental Law<\/em>, Volume 27, Number 2 (Fall 2008): 233.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claims of modern genetics notwithstanding, race remains a biologically meaningless concept of human categorization. Race simply has no traceable genetic essence, and the proliferation of racial DNA testing represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of race rather than the neutral application of scientific principles. Christian B. Sundquist, \u201cThe Meaning of Race in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12517,12518,12520],"class_list":["post-26077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-christian-b-sundquist","tag-christian-sundquist","tag-the-temple-journal-of-science-technology-environmental-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077","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=26077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47558,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions\/47558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}