Monthly Archives: June 2019

Clades not clusters: about the folk theory of race

June 24, 2019 – 9:07 am

A clade is a group of organisms with a common ancestors. Identifying clades in human genetics maps out the ancestry of human groups. Like most genetic analysis of human populations, it is based on identifying alleles, patterns of variation in human genes. As far as I am aware, the most complete study currently available identifying […]

By Lorenzo | Posted in History, Racism, Science, Society | Comments (0)

How to play intersectionality

June 16, 2019 – 7:14 am

I recently read, in quick succession, “Whiteness as Property” published in 1993 by Cheryl L. Harris and Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1991 essay “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” and her 1989 “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”. The […]

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Sex, Sexuality and doing evolutionary reasoning badly

June 8, 2019 – 8:02 am

This post by Darwinian Reactionary provides an excellent example of using evolutionary reasoning badly. He is using evolutionary reasoning to critique the notion of sexual orientation. There are lots of problems with the concept of sexual orientation. Starting with the fact that human sexuality is multi-dimensional. There is (1) who you fall in love with, (2) […]

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