Race is not biological!

I’m reading the book, Every Day Anti-Racism; Getting Real about Race in School, edited by Mica Pollock. It is a series of short essays by many great contributors. Part I includes essays that share a core principle that race categories are not biological or genetic realities. They are categories that humans made up. In the first essay by Alan Goodman, his topic is to teach students why race is an obsolete biological concept.

Saturday, June 21, I read the article, “To honor son, Dad donates kidney, kicking off life-saving transplant chain” by Tom Rademacher, Grand Rapids Press. This is a great article that demonstrates the point presented in the essay by Alan Goodman. Take a look at the people donating their kidneys and who they matched, how does race play into it! Race is not biological and this would be a great article to use to demonstrate it. I hope you will share this with other colleagues.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/to_honor_son_dad_donates_kidne.html