{"id":1557,"date":"2012-02-13T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2012-02-13T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T22:29:05","slug":"social-and-biological-constructions-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/02\/13\/social-and-biological-constructions-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Social and Biological Construction(s) of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/02\/the-social-and-biological-construction-of-race\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GeneExpressionBlog+%28Gene+Expression%29\">This article by Razib Khan at Discover Magazine<\/a>\u00a0makes an important distinction which relates to <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2011\/02\/15\/mythical-myths-3-the-concept-of-race\/\">my earlier post on the same topic (Mythical Myth #3<\/a>). The fact that the strength of a concept can be widely misunderstood does not mean that it has no basis in fact, and to deny that it exists at all (when it so transparently does) can actually discredit and undermine efforts to prevent its abuse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Razib Khan at Discover Magazine\u00a0makes an important distinction which relates to my earlier post on the same topic (Mythical Myth #3). The fact that the strength of a concept can be widely misunderstood does not mean that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/02\/13\/social-and-biological-constructions-of-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}