Yet as recently as 2010, highly acclaimed journalist Guy Harrison (2010) wrote: One day in the 1980s, I sat in the front row in my first undergraduate anthropology class, eager to learn more about this bizarre and fascinating species I was born into. But I got more than I expected that day as I heard for the first time that biological races are not real. After hearing several perfectly sensible reasons why vast biological categories don’t work very well, I started to feel betrayed by my society. “Why am I just hearing this now?… Why didn’t somebody tell me this in elementary school?” … I never
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