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Race denialism' is a description of a political dogma, albeit a small and (with many practical social reasons) marginalized one, that attempts to categorize current scientific understanding as Denial. A recent avalanche of scientific evidence in the field of genetics made the concept of race obsolete almost overnight; Race Denial is the reaction of those unwilling to subscribe to this change in scientific understanding. The means by which race denial is advanced varies; it may attack genetic science itself, claiming that the results are flawed or falsified, or it may advance scientific hypotheses in opposition, but the major thrust of those supporting it is either not scientifically based, or anti-scientific, and as a whole, its motivation can be categorized as itself racist, or supportive of racism for a multitude of reasons.

Scholarly analysis - Quotations

"Hence, the haplotype analyses of geographical associations strongly reject the existence of multiple evolutionary lineages of humans, reject the idea that Eurasians split from Africans one hundred thousand years ago, and reject the idea that “pure races” existed in the past. Thus, the idea that “races” existed among humans has no biological validity under the evolutionary lineage definition of subspecies."

"given enough genetic data, individuals can be correctly assigned to their populations of origin is compatible with the observation that most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. It is also compatible with our finding that, even when the most distinct populations are considered and hundreds of loci are used, individuals are frequently more similar to members of other populations than to members of their own population"

Citations

Critical Whiteness Studies - social deconstruction of "race"

• Ian F. H. Lopez - What is race
• Judy Helfand, Constructing Whiteness?

Biologists opposed to the construct of "race"

• Declaration of Schlaining Scientific manifesto declaring the distinction of humanity into races obsolete (1995, pdf)

• [2]D. J. Witherspoon, Genetic Similarities Within and Between Human Populations
• Genetics Made Complicated for a simple read, puting the discussion together

See Also

• racism
• holocaust denial in Japan

Templeton (2002). [1]. - Templeton, 2002.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/?tool=pmcentrez |title= Genetic Similarities Within and Between Human Populations |author= D. J. Witherspoon, S. Wooding, A. R. Rogers, E. E. Marchani, W. S. Watkins, M. A. Batzer, and L. B. Jorde |publisher= }}