Clines without classes: How to make sense of human variation

Sociological Theory

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 208-227

  Fujimura, Joan H ^a   Bolnick, Deborah A ^b   Rajagopalan, Ramya ^a   Kaufman, Jay S ^c   Lewontin, Richard C ^d   Duster, Troy ^e   Ossorio, Pilar ^a   Marks, Jonathan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

genetics; human genetic variation; race; social construction of race; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908866257     PISSN: 07352751     EISSN: 14679558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0735275114551611     Document Type: Article

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