Children's Books and a Changing Definition of Race

Last week I was privileged to hear Princeton President Shirley Tilghman deliver the Center for African American Studies' James Baldwin lecture called Race In The Post-Genome Era (that's my birds'-eye view from the balcony). Several of Dr. Tilghman's ideas jumped out at me:



At the level of the genome we're 99.9% identical to one another.



Differences between individuals are significantly greater than differences between groups.



The classic view of race, based on physical characteristics...