{"id":32368,"date":"2013-07-17T03:11:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T03:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32368"},"modified":"2015-10-24T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T21:57:55","slug":"invitation-to-a-dialogue-the-myth-of-%e2%80%98race%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32368","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of \u2018Race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/17\/opinion\/invitation-to-a-dialogue-the-myth-of-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of \u2018Race\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-15<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsite.johnlhodge.com\/index.php\/the-author\" target=\"_blank\">John L. Hodge<\/a><\/strong>, Retired lawyer, Former Professor of Philosophy and Author<br \/>\n<em>Boston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To the Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What should we do about \u201crace\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Over many decades, those who study genetics have found no biological evidence to support the idea that humans consist of different \u201craces.\u201d Based on such scientific data, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashley_Montagu\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Montagu<\/a> published \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3990\" target=\"_blank\">Man\u2019s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race<\/a>\u201d in 1942. New discoveries have confirmed what he said then. So why, over seven decades after his book, do we keep talking and living as though biological \u201craces\u201d exist?<\/p>\n<p>Not only are certain \u201cracial\u201d classifications flawed, as suggested in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32138\" target=\"_blank\">Has \u2018Caucasian\u2019 Lost Its Meaning?<\/a>\u201d (Sunday Review, July 7); all \u201cracial\u201d classifications are inherently flawed, because they are based on the false idea of \u201crace.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/17\/opinion\/invitation-to-a-dialogue-the-myth-of-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of \u2018Race\u2019 The New York Times 2013-07-15 John L. Hodge, Retired lawyer, Former Professor of Philosophy and Author Boston To the Editor: What should we do about \u201crace\u201d? Over many decades, those who study genetics have found no biological evidence to support the idea that humans consist of different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,6941,394,20],"tags":[15212,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-32368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-john-l-hodge","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368","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=32368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43448,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions\/43448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}