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E-book What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity

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Th is may have been a reference to the statement issued by the Amer-ican Association of Physical Anthropologists that declared, among other things, that ‘there is no national, religious, linguistic or cultural group or economic class that constitutes a race’.2Th e ASA statement continued: ‘Growing numbers of humanist scholars, social anthropologists, and political commentators have joined the chorus in urging the nation to rid itself of the concept of race.’ One scholar was quoted as saying that ‘identifying people by race only deepens the racial divide’. Th e ASA thereby recognized an intellectual challenge. Scholars in several diff erent fi elds were asking the ASA to help supersede an obsolete expression earlier advanced for the identifi cation of certain kinds of biological diff erence.Th e Association was in a fi x. Th ere was an intellectual issue and a political issue, for it was urged to respond to a proposal to forbid the California state government from collecting information on race and ethnicity.3 Understandably, the political issue was given priority because a professional association can take a vote on a proposal of this kind, whereas an intellectual issue is better addressed by debate in academic books, journal articles and seminars.So the Association issued an offi cial statement on the ‘Importance of Collecting Data on Race’. It maintained that such data should be collected because they were needed for the monitoring of social pol-icies in the United States. Th ere was no reference to ethnicity or to any ‘racial divide’ other than that between blacks and whites. Th e As-sociation did not seize the opportunity to remind interested persons that, as a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the United States had, since 1994, been under a treaty obligation to monitor and report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations about any inequalities aff ecting racial and ethnic groups within its population.Th e position adopted by the ASA was paradoxical in that it com-bined two contradictory elements: a recognition that race no longer had any validity in the academic fi eld within which it originated to-gether with a defence of procedures which implied the opposite.

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320.01 BAN w

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USA : Berghahn Books., 2015

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179 hlm

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9781785336584

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320.01

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computer

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online resource

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