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sapiens: i think you and abaya have basically addressed my question.
the trade-off involves the fact of some indexical value for the category race as a self-identified position--that the category may well be ideological/problematic in itself doesnt prevent its functioning as an index---folk use it even if it is not at all obvious waht it means when you think about it.
so i assume the metholodogy sections of papers which use this data make some gesture in the direction of acknowledging that the category is problematic (if the investigators see it so) and by doing that control for whatever problems one might have with the meanings assigned to the category socially.
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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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