September 14, 2001
Buried Alive: the Concept of Race in Science
In the last decade, many Americans have urged that the concept of race be abandoned, purged from our public discourse, rooted out of medicine, and exiled from science. Indeed, there is something of a bandwagon of publicly expressed sentiment that we should get rid of the idea of race altogether, and some unlikely allies are riding on that bandwagon.
In politics, left-leaning analysts have long advocated a heavier emphasis on class than on race, because they see economic forces as more
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