{"id":59272,"date":"2019-11-21T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59272"},"modified":"2019-11-21T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:03:07","slug":"the-return-of-race-science-the-quest-to-fortify-racism-with-bad-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59272","title":{"rendered":"The return of race science \u2014 the quest to fortify racism with bad biology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The return of race science \u2014 the quest to fortify racism with bad biology<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Quirks & Quarks<\/a>
\nCBC Radio<\/a>
\n2019-11-15<\/p>\n

Bob McDonald<\/strong><\/a>, Host and CBC’s Chief Science Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAn anti-racism demonstrator holds a placard during a protest march in 2018 in London, U.K.<\/a> Author Angela Saini said when she grew up as an ethnic minority in the city, there was a lot of racism in her area. (Chris J Ratcliffe\/Getty)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A look at the re-emergence of ‘scientific’ attempts to explain perceived racial differences<\/em><\/p>\n

In an era of rising ethnic nationalism and white supremacy, a British science writer’s new book explores why old notions of “race science<\/a>” are finding new popularity.<\/p>\n

This revival drew Angela Saini<\/a> to explore the history and new life that’s been given to the idea that science can justify old ideas of human difference based on skin colour, nationality or religion \u2014 what she called the biologization of race. The persistence of this idea in the modern era can be seen in a variety of ways, from the popularity of dubious DNA ancestry testing<\/a> to shadowy online groups repackaging scientific racism<\/a> for the 21st century.<\/p>\n

In her new book Superior: The Return of Race Science<\/em><\/a>, Saini traces the history of race science back to the Age of Enlightenment<\/a>, when philosophers and European thinkers started to classify human beings based on colour or other superficial features, the same way they classified plants or other animals.<\/p>\n

Quirks & Quarks<\/em> host Bob McDonald spoke with Saini about a range of topics: how modern science shows that racial categories are social constructs, not well-defined biological categories; how notions of race science are fed by and feed into politics; and how well-intentioned scientists should think about studying questions about human difference, including marginalized groups who may share susceptibility to disease…<\/p>\n

Read the article an listen to the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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