‘A Genetic History of the Americas’ with Jennifer Raff
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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Genetic Differences in the Human Family
The one drop rule that produced blackness in the american south is not actually based on penotype. It's actually based on ideology, because, you know, that's hence the entire very complicated history of passing and all that stuff. To say that like, y, like what do is just, like, orthogonal to the categories, the racial categories of phenotype, that are basely the product of an intellectual project that started around the seventeenth century in europe.
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