Making Race Without Racism?

摘要

People group themselves in all sorts of ways that, in particular contexts, may mean the difference between life and death: for example, as nations, religions, kin, speech communities, tribes, races, or soccer fans. There are consequently two bio-cultural fallacies that must be disentangled if one wishes to focus scientifically on the study of race. First, the fallacy of racialism-that the human species is naturally divisible into a reasonably small number of reasonably discrete kinds of people, equivalent to the zoologist's subspecies-a taxonomic fallacy.