Race: The Reality of Human Difference

Race: The Reality of Human Differences
Author(s)	Vincent Sarich, Frank Miele
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	January 2004
Pages	304
ISBN	ISBN 0-8133-4086-1

Race: The Reality of Human Differences is an anthropology book, in which authors Vincent M. Sarich, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Frank Miele, senior editor of Skeptic Magazine, argue for the reality of race. The books was published by Basic Books in 2004.

Policy recommendations

After arguing that human races exist, the authors put forth three different political systems that take race into account in the final chapter, "Learning to Live with Race." These are "Meritocracy in the Global Marketplace", "Affirmative Action and Race Norming", and "Resegregation and the Emergence of Enthno-States." Sarich and Miele list the advantages and disadvantages of each system and advocate Global Meritocracy as the best of the three options.

The authors then discuss a fourth, alternate option in the form of ethnic bioweapons. Due to constant ethnic conflicts between and within nations, the eventual use of such a weapon is highly probable in the view of the authors.