[Herewith the last word on this thread, which has, as far as I can tell,
nothing much to do with humanities computing. --WM]
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:50:58 +0000
From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" <weinshan@cse.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: 12.0437 on comments by Jascha Kessler re. "race"
Never one to eschew publicity (my own or my colleagues'), see
http://www.jsri.msu.edu/raceconf/presentations.html
Race in 21st Century America:
A National Conference
April 7-10, 1999
Jascha Kessler is, of course, correct.
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:55 +0000
From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@pop.ucla.edu>
If races were different orders of the species, we wouldn't be so
infinitely miscible, genetically, but breed monsters like tiglons,
etc.
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I also recommend a recent book by my colleague, Professor Alain Corcos,
who makes the comparable point. The book deserves wider circulation
than it has perhaps received to date.
Author Corcos, Alain F., 1925-
Title The myth of human races / Alain Corcos.
Publisher East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [c1997?].
Description xv, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209) and
index.
Subject Race.
ISBN 0870134396 (alk. paper)
djw
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