{"id":30095,"date":"2010-12-05T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30095"},"modified":"2013-11-23T03:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T08:53:12","slug":"do-we-still-think-race-is-a-social-construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/05\/do-we-still-think-race-is-a-social-construct\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Still Think Race is a Social Construct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture14.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30856\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture14.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor years biologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all agreed that <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/18\/a-simple-lesson-on-the-social-construction-of-race\/\" target=\"_self\">racial categories are social constructs<\/a>. \u00a0Recently, however, new genetic information about human evolution has required that scientists re-think the biological reality of race. \u00a0In this 6-minute video, sociologist Alondra Nelson describes this re-thinking:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zYwAfzN8GRw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years biologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have all agreed that racial categories are social constructs. \u00a0Recently, however, new genetic information about human evolution has required that scientists re-think the biological reality of race. \u00a0In this 6-minute video, sociologist Alondra Nelson describes this re-thinking: Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[664,252,285,290,293],"class_list":["post-30095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-healthmedicine","tag-raceethnicity","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30095"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59409,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30095\/revisions\/59409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}