Zach B. Hancock | Why Biological Race Isn't Real @talkpopgen | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
In this video, I debunk the myth of "race realism" - the white supremacist idea that culturally-defined races are actual biological entities that can be used to separate people into discrete clusters. This was the notion of race that was held by the Buffalo shooter in 2022 that murdered 10 black people at a Tops supermarket. Despite biologists recognizing that race is a social and cultural construct for over 40 years, much of the general public still thinks that there exists real biological differences between races. I explain why these differences simply don't exist.
Excellent articles for further reading:
Carlson et al. (2022) Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists. Nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03252-z.
Lewis et al. (2022) Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society. Science, science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm7530?casa_token=5j1OZraGJlsAAAAA%3Ai5AHK_ct7ATcFC4YP1p9rTjpQ09f9OmlDqoVjJBvhgGQEoEvV6jgInXAY8HjnaEWN8HJTjXvm4JLaQ.
In this video, I debunk the myth of "race realism" - the white supremacist idea that culturally-defined races are actual biological entities that can be used to separate people into discrete clusters. This was the notion of race that was held by the Buffalo shooter in 2022 that murdered 10 black people at a Tops supermarket. Despite biologists recognizing that race is a social and cultural construct for over 40 years, much of the general public still thinks that there exists real biological differences between races. I explain why these differences simply don't exist.
Excellent articles for further reading:
Carlson et al. (2022) Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists. Nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03252-z.
Lewis et al. (2022) Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society. Science, science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm7530?casa_token=5j1OZraGJlsAAAAA%3Ai5AHK_ct7ATcFC4YP1p9rTjpQ09f9OmlDqoVjJBvhgGQEoEvV6jgInXAY8HjnaEWN8HJTjXvm4JLaQ.
