{"id":33,"date":"2003-06-28T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/06\/the_fallacy_of_race\/"},"modified":"2003-06-28T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2003-06-28T14:38:12","slug":"the_fallacy_of_race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/the_fallacy_of_race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallacy of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently come across a few articles related to the PBS series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/race\/000_General\/000_00-Home.htm\">Race &#8211; The Power of an Illusion<\/a> (there&#8217;s a wealth of information on that site).  I wrote a bit about that powerful documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/2003\/05\/race_the_power_of_an_illusion.html\">over on my Trader Mike blog<\/a>.  I thought I&#8217;d highlight it again over here.  That documentary should be required viewing for everyone on this country, and the world for for that matter.   Here are the recent articles on the subject:<\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/comments.php?id=251_0_3_0_M\">The End of Race?<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/theblackhandside.net\/2003\/06\/the_mother_or_all_motherlands.html\">The Mother or all Motherlands<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.synearth.net\/2003\/06\/25\">Human Diversity &#8212;  Going Deeper<\/a><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.synearth.net\/2003\/06\/26\">Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race<\/a><\/LI><\/p>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently come across a few articles related to the PBS series Race &#8211; The Power of an Illusion (there&#8217;s a wealth of information on that site). I wrote a bit about that powerful documentary over on my Trader Mike blog. I thought I&#8217;d highlight it again over here. That documentary should be required viewing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/28\/the_fallacy_of_race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fallacy of Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":196,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/another_pbs_race_documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":0},"title":"Another PBS Race Documentary","date":"September 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"PBS is airing a new documentary entitled Matters of Race. Although part one aired yesterday, they're showing it again over the weekend here in Atlanta -- so check you local listings. (via Prometheus 6 and About.com's Race Relations blog)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Race&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":444,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/jack_johnson_documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":1},"title":"Jack Johnson Documentary","date":"January 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I watched \"Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson\" over the last two nights on PBS. Ken Burns has produced another fascinating documentary (also see The Civil War and Jazz). If you missed it, I highly recommend seeing it. It's being aired a few more times this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Race&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/06\/paperbagtestcom\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":2},"title":"PaperBagTest.com?","date":"July 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"GetUnderground.com has an excellent critique of LightSkinPeople.com. Here's a snippet: \u201cAre light-skinned people hard up for dates or something?\u201d my friend Carol scoffs when I call her to discuss Rome\u2019s new venture. Carol is a brown-skinned sister who\u2019s fed up to the teeth with comments like \u201cYou\u2019re pretty to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Race&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/11\/is_race_real\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":3},"title":"Is Race Real?","date":"July 11, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The NY Times Op-Ed section has an article about race today. It addresses whether race actually exists. Some snippets: \"There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification at all,\" said Bryan Sykes, the Oxford geneticist and author of \"The Seven Daughters of Eve.\" \"I'm always\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Race&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":168,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/gentrification_of_urban_black_neighborhoods\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":4},"title":"Gentrification of Urban Black Neighborhoods","date":"August 26, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Prometheus 6 has highlighted a series of articles from The Sacramento Observer about the gentrification of urban Black neighborhoods. I haven't read them all yet, but I certainly will do so. Gentrification is running wild here in Atlanta, and I have very mixed emotions about what I see going on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Current Events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/01\/lost_in_the_flood_why_no_mention_of_race_or_class_in_tvs_katrina_coverage\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"position":5},"title":"Lost in the Flood: Why no mention of race or class in TV&#8217;s Katrina coverage?","date":"September 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"An important article on Slate about race & class with regard to the victims of hurricane Katrina. Once again I'm liberating the text in case they try to start charging for it or something. And somebody please tell me WTF they can't at the very least drop some food &\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Current Events&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}