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1 " 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. "
― , Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are
2 " When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness. "
3 " We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically. "
4 " You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments. "
5 " ... People don't live in the greater scheme of things, they live in the here and now, "
6 " Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization. "