Monday, June 29, 2015

"Identity Is One Thing; Identification Is Another"

"Belief in witchcraft didn't disappear because science disproved it, but because it ultimately became something people couldn't take seriously in the world of everyday life. Right now people take race seriously, they think its something that nature has bestowed. Even the people who think they don't, who say 'race is a social construction,' also take it seriously as something that nature has bestowed."


Jason Farbman at Jacobin interviews Barbara J. Fields and Karen E. Fields.

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