Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can’t imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn’t also a way of controlling people.

Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can’t imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn’t also a way of controlling people.

– Barbara Katz Rothman –

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

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