Racism: A Virulent but Curable Social Disease.
In this paper, we argue that race is a destructive biological illusion that is better understood as a form of Durkheimian deviance than as a meaningful form of biological differentiation. Without question, there are significant differences among human social groups, however, those differences are so...
| Publicado en: | Theory in Action Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 79 - 109 |
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Transformative Studies Institute
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