Sloan, Phillip R. (Author)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume: 47, Part A
Issue: Part A
Pages: 191-195
Ongoing debates between racial naturalists and social constructionists over the broad topic of the reality of race as a natural category (Hochman, 2013, pp. 331--51; Sesardic, 2010, pp. 143--62; Spencer, 2014, pp. 38--43) hinge in many respects on issues that this collection of translations and commentaries from the early horizons of scientific anthropology and racial theory bring to light. Contemporary new racial naturalism, as defended recently in the pages of this journal (Spencer, 2014, pp. 38--43), generally involves the claim that major continental subdivisions of the human species have some biological reality, defined by genetic cluster analysis. At the same time this is not also a claim that these fall into traditional taxonomic categories such as Subspecies. Opponents of this modified group realism, such as Adam Hochman (2013, pp. 331--51), argue for a social constructivism of racial categories that does not deny biological correlates, but recognizes the dominant importance of social factors involved in enlisting biological differences and investing these with socio-cultural meanings (Gannett, 2010 in Hochman, 2013, p. 334).
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