{"id":48348,"date":"2016-07-20T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48348"},"modified":"2016-07-20T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T21:07:16","slug":"what-scientists-mean-when-they-say-race-is-not-genetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48348","title":{"rendered":"What Scientists Mean When They Say \u2018Race\u2019 Is Not Genetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/race-is-not-biological_us_56b8db83e4b04f9b57da89ed\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What Scientists Mean When They Say \u2018Race\u2019 Is Not Genetic<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JacqEHoward\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jacqueline Howard<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Science Editor<\/p>\n<p><em>A new paper explains why it can be dangerous to think otherwise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a team of scientists in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> have their way, using race to categorize groups of people in biological and genetic research will be forever discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of race in such research is \u201cproblematic at best and harmful at worst,\u201d the researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45537\" target=\"_blank\">argued in a new paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Science<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, they also said that social scientists should continue to study race as a social construct to better understand the impact of racism on health.<\/p>\n<p>So what does all this mean? HuffPost Science recently posed that question and others to the paper\u2019s co-author, <a href=\"http:\/\/drexel.edu\/dornsife\/academics\/faculty\/Michael%20Yudell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Yudell<\/a>, who is associate professor and chair of community health and prevention at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Philadelphia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/race-is-not-biological_us_56b8db83e4b04f9b57da89ed\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Scientists Mean When They Say \u2018Race\u2019 Is Not Genetic The Huffington Post 2016-02-09 Jacqueline Howard, Senior Science Editor A new paper explains why it can be dangerous to think otherwise. If a team of scientists in Philadelphia and New York have their way, using race to categorize groups of people in biological and genetic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[10108,24540,3414,2425],"class_list":["post-48348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-huffington-post","tag-jacqueline-howard","tag-michael-yudell","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348","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=48348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48349,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48348\/revisions\/48349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}