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sapiens: it would seem to me that self-identification as the main way to link persons and race bumps the matter squarely onto ideological grounds--except that instead of focusing on the contents/definitions of the category, you focus on the effects of internalizing the category.
what these results would mean would be a function of how you decided to stage the relation of race as a category to other categories that indicate a sense of social identity or position or place.
or of a decision to treat these self-positioning markers as neutral, not problematic.
but how would you go about that?
simply exclude the problem at the level of method?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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