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work_wye4ud3tvzeghhnydzxtmy7mnq	Michael Root	How We Divide the World	2000	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6142	391	66	My aim, in this paper, is not to argue for the legitimacy or conservation of race but to defend Du Bois's idea that kinds of people can be both made that there are no biological races and no natural differences between humans marked by our system of racial classification. explain how a social category, a kind like race, can be both invented and Though we divide ourselves by both, research in the social sciences routinely sorts us into black or white but not In the social sciences, real taxonomy is less about generalizations and more about regulations; we divide ourselves not by discovering Social categories, unlike those in the natural sciences, are normative. the OMB divides Americans as black or white, then these races are illusions and to use them in sociology or epidemiology is not science but d o divide themselves into a black and a white race.	./cache/work_wye4ud3tvzeghhnydzxtmy7mnq.pdf	./txt/work_wye4ud3tvzeghhnydzxtmy7mnq.txt