CULTURE TRUMPS SCIENTIFIC FACT.
Once described as humankind's most dangerous myth, 'race' remains a most contentious concept: it is defined one way but used in another. This article examines the use of the term 'race' in the utterances of American opinion leaders (scholars and the judiciary, executive, and media) and employs it to...
| Publicado en: | Social Analysis Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 97 - 116 |
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Berghahn Books
Summer2016
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