{"id":50738,"date":"2016-12-17T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50738"},"modified":"2016-12-17T21:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T21:01:44","slug":"the-mythic-root-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50738","title":{"rendered":"The Mythic Root of Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00314.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Mythic Root of Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1475-682X\" target=\"_blank\">Sociological Inquiry<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/soin.1993.63.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 63, Issue 3, July 1993<\/a><br \/>\npages 339\u2013350<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00314.x<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donal E. Muir<\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201crace\u201d was introduced into science two and a half centuries ago as an arbitrary convenience to describe geographic groupings of humans. These ad hoc racial taxonomies were seized upon, however, as \u201cscientific\u201d justification for slavery and other forms of social, political, and economic oppression. Over the last fifty years, geneticists and biologists have quietly abandoned race as a scientific concept, leaving the general public unaware that racial categories, associated only with culturally selected, physically superficial characteristics, <strong>are social rather than genetic<\/strong>. As a result, most individuals remain \u201cracist\u201d in the sense of predicating interaction on racial assignments thought to reflect deep physiological differences. Some of these are conventionally recognized \u201cmean racists.\u201d The remainder, however, could well be considered \u201ckind racists,\u201d for their seeming benign tolerance defines limits to integration, and their unreflective perpetuation of the enabling belief of racism, that races exist physiologically, serves as a wellspring for mean racism during social crises. Many societies are thus much more racist than they appear. Since the belief that others are physically distinct tends to extend social distance and exacerbate hostility, analysts of social conflict ignore this pool of hidden racism at their peril.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchased the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00314.x\/epdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mythic Root of Racism Sociological Inquiry Volume 63, Issue 3, July 1993 pages 339\u2013350 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00314.x Donal E. Muir, Professor of Sociology University of Alabama The term \u201crace\u201d was introduced into science two and a half centuries ago as an arbitrary convenience to describe geographic groupings of humans. These ad hoc racial taxonomies were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394],"tags":[25777,25778,25779],"class_list":["post-50738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-donal-e-muir","tag-donal-muir","tag-sociological-inquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50738","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=50738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50739,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50738\/revisions\/50739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}