The Search for the Biological Cultural Identity
How Culture & Identity Only Doubles Down on Biological Fictions
“Race as culture is only biological race in polite language.”1
My mother, not too long ago, reassured me that she “didn’t have a racist bone in her body.” Yet I have vivid recollections of past conversations with her where she expressed the “cultural differences” between me (a white boy) and a black girl. She reassured m…