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Racial Purity Doesn’t Exist, and Here’s Why

May 4, 2017 by Carie Little Hersh 2 Comments

Racial Purity Doesn’t Exist, and Here’s Why

With the recent increase in folks’ throwing shade and swastikas on other people’s ethnicities, I thought I’d take a moment to remind us all that racial purity is as fictional as Draco Malfoy. Here are four reasons why race categories don’t mean what you think they do. There are No Clear Racial Divides: Like water, human genetics flow around the world, sometimes pooling up in isolated places but never really disconnected from everyone else. American genetics are no different. If there are pools of particularly briny water, or mosquito-laden water, or salt-free water, it’s because that water has been temporarily isolated from the free flow of water around the world. It is never completely disconnected, and it is never completely pure. Even the clearest flowing natural spring water has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: American Culture, Biological Anthropology, Race Tagged With: biological anthropology, Ethnicity, gene flow, genotype, phenotype, race, racial purity, racism, skin color anthropology

Dr. Carie Little Hersh

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

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