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Boos for Taboo: Taking Entine to Task |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Stephen L. Sniderman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2001 |
| Size: 3,890 Words, 24,577 Characters |
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After painstakingly scrutinizing the evidence from many fields, Entine has convinced himself that genes play a part in the amazing success of many athletes, especially those labeled black by our culture. He has obviously tried to look at the issue as comprehensively and dispassionately as possible. He's interviewed and consulted a wide variety of geneticists, biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, athletes, journalists, and others who study the relationship between sports and "populations." He's been conscientious about quoting many important people who disagree with his conclusions, including Harry Edwards, Richard Lapchick, and Stephen Jay Gould, and he seems to want to be fair in presenting the environmentalists' case. On the whole, he has done an admirable job of explaining why thi...
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...s--and therefore as second-class citizens--has at long last (or once again) been confirmed by that most alluring of mistresses, science. I am skeptical that anything of social value can come out of that confirmation. Far from leading to an increase in feelings of brotherhood, tolerance, and understanding, Taboo's most significant impact, I'm afraid, will be simply to justify the status quo.
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