The Arc of a Bad Idea

Understanding and Transcending Race

Carlos Hoyt

• It is written by a person who is intimately familiar with living as an adversely racialized person
• It introduces readers to the non-racial worldview
• It provides first-person narratives of people commonalty ascribed to the black/African American racial category who eschew racial identification altogether.
• It furnishes the concept of racialization as the antidote to normalizing race as a natural and unavoidable aspect of identity.
• It explains essentialism
• It reconciles the seeming conflict between race-conscious and color-blind ideologies
• It provides a way beyond the problems of race that plague this country

The Arc of a Bad Idea

Understanding and Transcending Race

Carlos Hoyt

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The Arc of a Bad Idea

Understanding and Transcending Race

Carlos Hoyt

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The Arc of a Bad Idea

Understanding and Transcending Race

Carlos Hoyt

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The Arc of a Bad Idea

Understanding and Transcending Race

Carlos Hoyt

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Mean racist, kind racist, non-racist: which are you?

'Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.' I imagine that perhaps with a tweak or two, most people would be OK with this declaration. Many people are aware that the concept of race has no biological validity; that it's a social construct, like gender or money, real only in that we treat them as real.

Posted on December 23, 2016

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Blowin' in the wind

I am, I suppose, part of the 'cognoscenti' in the area of social identity, social bias, and social justice. I'm a tenure-track assistant professor of social work, I'm a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, and I recently wrote a book on how to understand and overcome challenges associated with race.

Posted on July 18, 2016

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Taking race out of human genetics and memetics: We can't achieve one without achieving the other

Acknowledging that they are certainly not the first to do so, four scientists, Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob Desalle, and Sarah Tishkoff recently called for the phasing out of the use of the concept/term 'race' in biological science.

Posted on March 23, 2016

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Correcting the conversation about race

On 6 November 2015, the New York Times featured a poignant five-minute documentary called 'A Conversation About Growing Up Black,' produced by Joe Brewster and Perri Peltz. Brewster and Peltz present Rakesh, Miles, Malek, Marvin, Shaquille, Bisa, Jumoke, Maddox, and Myles. The youngest are 10 and the eldest is 25 years old.

Posted on November 20, 2015

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