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Human nature and race

Raza y naturaleza humana


Peter Wade

    Most scholars argue that “race” has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that “race” is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the idea of race.


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