Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
Phil Nicholls (pn8886@csc.albany.edu)
2 Feb 1995 01:41:41 GMT
In article <3gp0bt$qnp@agate.berkeley.edu>,
<jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>pn8886@csc.albany.edu (Phil Nicholls) wrote:
>Fine. Two points. First, you're dead wrong about the nature of the
>category of "blacks". I think you're taking out-of-date
>"scientific" approaches to race, and projecting their errors onto
>society in general. Second, whether the category of "black" is
>useful to biologists is irrelevant. Society is not trying to help
>biologists, but is trying to deal with day to day realities.
>
It appears I may have misunderstood the point you are trying to raise.
Yes, race is real. It is not meaningful biologically but is still a
real sociological and historical concept.
Is this your position also?
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Philip "Chris" Nicholls Department of Anthropology
Institute for Hydrohominoid Studies SUNY Albany
University of Ediacara pn8886@cnsunix.albany.edu
"Semper Alouatta"
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