{"id":54928,"date":"2017-09-08T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54928"},"modified":"2017-09-08T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:37:28","slug":"we-should-abandon-attempts-to-save-the-category-of-race-there-is-no-good-way-to-make-sense-of-the-category-from-a-biological-or-a-social-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54928","title":{"rendered":"We should abandon attempts to save the category of race. There is no good way to make sense of the category from a biological or a social perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We should abandon attempts to save the category of race. There is no good way to make sense of the category from a biological or a social perspective. There are no races, only groups misunderstood as races: racialised groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adam Hochman, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher\u2019s perspective<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Conversation<\/em>, August 31, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/racism-is-real-race-is-not-a-philosophers-perspective-82504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/racism-is-real-race-is-not-a-philosophers-perspective-82504<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should abandon attempts to save the category of race. There is no good way to make sense of the category from a biological or a social perspective. There are no races, only groups misunderstood as races: racialised groups. Adam Hochman, \u201cRacism is real, race is not: a philosopher\u2019s perspective,\u201d The Conversation, August 31, 2017. [&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":[27502,5628],"class_list":["post-54928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adam-hochman","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928","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=54928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54929,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928\/revisions\/54929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}