The Role of Genetics in Racial Categorisation of Humans

Bardien-Kruger, Soraya; Müller-Nedebock, Amica Corda

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“…Transracial adoption is understood to involve adopting a child with a different race to the adoptive parents (Hrapczynski et al, 2022; Treitler, 2014). Defining transracial adoption is complex because there is no scientific validity to the concept of race, and different criteria are used in different historical times and geographical regions to distinguish between “races” (Bardien-Kruger & Muller-Nedebock, 2020; Treitler, 2014).…”

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“…Racial identity is defined as self-perception, including how one describes oneself, a sense of belonging to a particular group, and how one differentiates oneself from other groups (McRoy, 1994). Ethnicity refers to commonality of cultural factors, including nationality, cultural heritage, language, social practice, and religion (Ali, 2014; Bardien-Kruger & Muller-Nedebock, 2020). Cultural identity is the particular society a person belongs to as well as behaviors, beliefs, rituals, and values associated with that group (Baden & Steward, 2000).…”

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“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”: Language Learning in Transracial Adoptive Families in South Africa

Luyt

Swartz

2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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In South Africa, transracial adoption could result in the loss of birth language for the adopted child. Language is an important part of racial and cultural identity in South Africa. Not being able to speak a local African language causes Black African transracial adoptees to be judged by outsiders. Lack of fluency in an appropriate language limits social circles associated with biological family and makes reunion more complex. Many transracial adoptive parents wish to facilitate the learning of a local language for their adopted children or the entire transracial adoptive family. However, despite their best intentions, most transracial adoptive families fail in this endeavor. Reasons for this and recommendations for practice are discussed.

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“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”: Language Learning in Transracial Adoptive Families in South Africa

Luyt

Swartz

2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Lessons in our faults: Fault lines on race and research ethics

Msimang

2020

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Addressing the question of race in scientific researchSince the publication of the now infamous paper 'Age-and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Colored South African women' by Nieuwoudt and colleagues where they claim the cognitive functioning of coloured women is defective in some ways, 1 there has been renewed doubts about the legitimacy of race in research at Stellenbosch University and the controversy has become a matter of concern for universities and research ethics boards across the country. Because of the harms the Nieuwoudt paper has caused, the question of the use of race in research has re-emerged as a central concern. What researchers want to know is how to assess whether race is relevant to some question(s), how to use racial classifications if race is relevant, and when to leave race out.The attention which this paper has received is perhaps related to how it is a caricature of a more common and mundane problem about the status of race in research. Considered responses to the paper have centred on the question of how we are to use race in academic settings if at all. The Nieuwoudt paper is a caricature of the problem because the study it presented was fundamentally misguided, it relied on racist stereotypes in a quite explicit fashion, its claims about the homogeneity of the group it studied are patently false (to bolster their claim, they cited a paper that actually makes the opposite claim), and it did not meet basic scientific standards in both its claims and their assessment. 2 Because of its basic scientific failings, some academics have asked how the Nieuwoudt paper managed to pass peer review and how the research protocol managed to attain ethics approval in the first place. 3 A speculative conjecture in this regard is that the reviewers themselves may have held uncritical beliefs about race that made them overlook what, for many researchers and concerned South Africans, were glaringly dubious and problematic claims about race. 3 After a year-long investigation at Stellenbosch University, it was finally announced that 'the article was not aligned with the Research Ethics Committee (REC) approved protocol', meaning that it is arguable that this research did not follow the recommendations of the REC. 4 That the article was soon retracted by the journal for its lack of scientific merit suggests that there was a failure of quality control at the level of the peer review that the journal recognised on a second assessment. 5

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The Role of Genetics in Racial Categorisation of Humans

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“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”: Language Learning in Transracial Adoptive Families in South Africa

“I’ve Really Let Go of the Language Thing.”: Language Learning in Transracial Adoptive Families in South Africa

Lessons in our faults: Fault lines on race and research ethics

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