Does ‘Race’ Have a Future?

By P. Kitcher. 2007

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Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “Additionally, some contemporary genetic research supports the idea that people with similar geographic ancestry also share clusters of common genes that correspond roughly to modern racial categories (Blank, Dabady, and Citro 2004; Kitcher 2007).”
Race: a social destruction of a biological concept (2010, background): “…more likely to commit crime because of the darkness of the skin or because the alleles that code for proteins that increase melanin concentrations in the skin have some psychological side effect, but because they are poor, undereducated, given fewer opportunities, and so on’’ (Kitcher 2007, 310).”
The Nature of Race (2015, background): “Regarding his biological kinds, Kitcher (2007) states: Given pragmatis m about kinds, it is necessary to point to particular purposes that drawing racial divisions in this way would serve, purposes that can themselves be defended.”