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Color Of Creatorship - Author's Response, Anjali Vats
Color Of Creatorship - Author's Response, Anjali Vats
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This essay is the author's response to three reviews of The Color of Creatorship written by notable intellectual property scholars and published in the IP Law Book Review.
The Meaning Of Race In The Dna Era: Science, History And The Law, Christian Sundquist
The Meaning Of Race In The Dna Era: Science, History And The Law, Christian Sundquist
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The meaning of “race” has changed dramatically over time. Early theories of race assigned social, intellectual, moral and physical values to perceived physical differences among groups of people. The perception that race should be defined in terms of genetic and biologic difference fueled the “race science” of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, during which time geneticists, physiognomists, eugenicists, anthropologists and others purported to find scientific justification for denying equal treatment to non-white persons. Nazi Germany applied these understandings of race in a manner which shocked the world, and following World War II the concept of race increasingly came to be …