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by Joseph L. Graves, Jr, 252 pp, $28, ISBN 0-8135-2847-X, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2001.

JAMA. 2002;287:115-116.

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At the end of the first paragraph of the aptly titled The Emperor's New Clothes, Joseph Graves, Jr, professor of evolutionary biology at Arizona State University, writes, "our society cannot progress toward true justice and equality until we exorcise racism from our collective consciousness." Graves firmly asserts that debunking the idea of race-as-biology is an essential first step to eliminating racism. His book helps set the path toward a "post-racial" human biology and, hopefully, a decline in racism in science and society.

The Emperor's New Clothes is a concise history of the origin and evolution of the idea of race, the development of the science of classification and ranking of human types/races, and the persistence of racial ideology and science. Graves concludes that race is a social construct that was given power by science. When the myth of biological races is smashed, biological differences cease to be an excuse . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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