{"id":59290,"date":"2019-11-22T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59290"},"modified":"2019-11-22T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:24:53","slug":"often-race-is-used-as-a-variable-without-people-really-defining-it-biologically-and-that-is-a-very-minimum-we-should-expect-from-a-scientific-variable-that-youll-be-able-to-define-it-biolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59290","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOften race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you&#8217;ll be able to define it biologically.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span>Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you&#8217;ll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that is a valid way to think about these things.<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelasaini.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angela Saini<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob McDonald, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The return of race science \u2014 the quest to fortify racism with bad biology<\/a>,\u201d <em>Quirks &amp; Quarks, CBC Radio<\/em>, November 15, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/nov-16-watching-wildfire-with-radar-the-return-of-race-science-and-more-1.5359599\/the-return-of-race-science-the-quest-to-fortify-racism-with-bad-biology-1.5359610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/nov-16-watching-wildfire-with-radar-the-return-of-race-science-and-more-1.5359599\/the-return-of-race-science-the-quest-to-fortify-racism-with-bad-biology-1.5359610<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOften race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you&#8217;ll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that [&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":[29802,30536,21842,13560,25461,30535],"class_list":["post-59290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-angela-saini","tag-bob-mcdonald","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-radio","tag-quirks-quarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290","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=59290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59291,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions\/59291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}