{"id":36220,"date":"2014-04-07T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36220"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:49:37","slug":"there-is-no-race-gene-its-a-biological-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36220","title":{"rendered":"There is no \u201crace gene,\u201d it\u2019s a biological myth."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We could tie ourselves in knots trying to untangle the many complexities of racial identity, so let me simply address this with pure science. There is no \u201crace gene,\u201d it\u2019s a biological myth. That doesn\u2019t mean race isn\u2019t real, it means it is a lived experience, rather than something we are born into. As Larry Adelman, Executive Producer of \u201cRace &#8211; The Power of an Illusion,\u201d so eloquently put it: &#8220;The factors that lead to differential outcomes between races live not in any \u2018racial\u2019 genes but in our social institutions and practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Celeste Headlee, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/story\/113822-halle-berry-theres-no-race-gene\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s No \u2018Race Gene\u2019, Halle Berry<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Takeaway<\/em>, February 9, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/story\/113822-halle-berry-theres-no-race-gene\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/story\/113822-halle-berry-theres-no-race-gene<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could tie ourselves in knots trying to untangle the many complexities of racial identity, so let me simply address this with pure science. There is no \u201crace gene,\u201d it\u2019s a biological myth. That doesn\u2019t mean race isn\u2019t real, it means it is a lived experience, rather than something we are born into. As Larry [&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":[14874,17201],"class_list":["post-36220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-celeste-headlee","tag-the-takeaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36220","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=36220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}