Nell Ervin Painter, the wonderful historian who we've relied on so much in this series. The question, why haven't the genome projects findings taken hold in the culture? And listen to what she said about that. Because of these deep running currents and the way we conceptualize American society, we need race. There's a there's a definite there's a skewed relationship here.
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter