Racism, Not Race : : Answers to Frequently Asked Questions / / Alan H. Goodman, Joseph L. Graves.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Graves, Joseph L.,; Goodman, Alan H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 17 b&w figures

The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science, it is all too significant in the day-to-day lives of racialized people across the globe. Inequities in health, wealth, and an array of other life outcomes cannot be explained without referring to “race”—but their true source is racism. What do we need to know about the pseudoscience of race in order to fight racism and fulfill human potential?In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference. They demonstrate that the ideology of racism created races and show why the inequalities ascribed to race are in fact caused by racism.Graves and Goodman provide persuasive and timely answers to key questions about race and racism for a moment when people of all backgrounds are striving for social justice. Racism, Not Race shows readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- QUESTIONS -- PREFACE -- Introduction. WHAT ARE RACE, RACISM, AND HUMAN VARIATION? -- Chapter One. HOW DID RACE BECOME BIOLOGICAL? -- Chapter Two. EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GENETICS AND RACE -- Chapter Three. EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT RACISM -- Chapter Four. WHY DO RACES DIFFER IN DISEASE INCIDENCE? -- Chapter Five. LIFE HISTORY, AGING, AND MORTALITY -- Chapter Six. ATHLETICS, BODIES, AND ABILITIES -- Chapter Seven. INTELLIGENCE, BRAINS, AND BEHAVIORS -- Chapter Eight. DRIVING WHILE BLACK AND OTHER DEADLY REALITIES OF INSTITUTIONAL AND SYSTEMIC RACISM -- Chapter Nine. DNA AND ANCESTRY TESTING -- Chapter Ten. RACE NAMES AND “RACE MIXING” -- Chapter Eleven. A WORLD WITHOUT RACISM? -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX