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From Race to Melanin Matters: the Mathematics of Skin Color

Ronald Edward Hall
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Race in America is applied as a biological construct which differentiates the human species by designated race category. However, race absent biological significance is tantamount to a deception. The specific ethnic features such as light skin associated with Caucasian race and dark skin with Negroid race are no longer reliable as a racial trait. The inability of observers to visually identify race in an age of increased miscegenation will necessitate a more comprehensive, mathematically significant measure of human category to effectively confront charges of discrimination via race as socio-economic proxy. In as much as race has brought about socio-economic consequences the mathematically significant measure of skin color will be a necessity for challenging race as socio-economic proxy. By eliminating race from the dynamics of socio-economic proxy, the human species as a whole might eliminate the great race deception to effectively meet its challenges well into the 21st century and beyond.

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halshs-02457135 , version 1 (29-01-2020)

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Ronald Edward Hall. From Race to Melanin Matters: the Mathematics of Skin Color. La Peaulogie - Revue de sciences sociales et humaines sur les peaux, 2019, (Peau)lluant. Les toxiques à notre contact, 3, pp.107-121. ⟨halshs-02457135v1⟩
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