Why Is Race Still Being Treated as a Scientific Category

Race science or the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to justify racism, racial inferiority or racial superiority, is making a startling comeback. Although all human genomes are 99.5% identical, it is nonetheless true that the remaining 0.5% can vary in ways that correlate to geographical ancestry. Those correlations, however, so not strictly map to social categories . With ethno-nationalists touring race science as an absurd means of celebrating people who are of Northern European descent as inherently superior to those of other ethnicities, it begs the question: just how soon can we bury race science once and for all.

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