A Black and White Question: Is “race” really a social construct?

Posted on April 22nd, 2006 by Tariq Nelson

There was an interesting article in the Economist that explores the question of race in medicine and slightly dips into the question of whether or not race is a biological reality or a social construct. People have been going back and forth on this ever since the advent of the new DNA tests. Before commenting on some of the quotes from the article, I want to clarify my position

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6 Responses to “A Black and White Question: Is “race” really a social construct?”

  1. Hood, on April 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 pm Said:

    Reminds me of the hadith Ahmad narrates from Abu Musa that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah created Adam from a handful of clay taken from all over the world; Thus the children of Adam came in accordance with the earth. They are white, red, and black, as well as all [colors] in between. They are easy-going, harsh, good and bad, as well as all [temperments] in between.”

  2. tariqnelson, on April 24th, 2006 at 2:13 pm Said:

    Masha Allah, that is an excellent point. Shows how different people are and obviously how the truth of Islam is shining through

  3. matoko_parri, on August 26th, 2006 at 12:56 pm Said:

    tariq, it may interest u to know that famous (or infamous) blogverse evolutionary geneticist Steve Sailer also describes race as an extended family.
    we all agree with Allah. ;)

  4. Blackamericans and Belief about Race « Imam Johari Abdul Malik, on November 28th, 2007 at 12:15 pm Said:

    [...] longer believe that ‘blacks’ are a single race shows me that we are becoming a little more nuanced about “race”. “The Blacks” are not one big monolithic group of people. On the other hand, we have a [...]

  5. Nadeem, on March 7th, 2009 at 11:58 pm Said:

    The National Geographic did a monumental documentary on the Origins of Man back in 2005/2006. I personally met three caucasian friends of mine at FMC Technologies in Houston Texas who took the DNA test to track their roots. In reality, what the documentary shows is that DNA proves the “Adam and Eve” theory, tracking the origins of the entire human race to Africa; down to a single unadulterated tribe in Africa.

    The documentary goes to show the X and Y chromosome spread in India; tracking the pictures, faces and chromosomes or human stamp of origin. Its been a while, check it out…to see for yourself.

  6. Nadeem, on March 8th, 2009 at 12:06 am Said:

    I found the link

    https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html

    Genographics…

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