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Has anyone read this short paper? It's 20 pages and details why the "race is a social construct" arguments are wrong. It's published and peer reviewed and has been cited in additional work.

Race: The social deconstruction of a biological concept.

www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/getfile.php?file=Race.pdf

Here's the conclusion of it:

"My aim in this paper was not to prove the biological reality of race. Rather, more modestly, I have tried to show that typical attempts to disconnect the concept of race from genetics have too quickly and too uncritically been accepted by many ‘‘race critics’’, including most philosophers of science who have discussed this issue. The arguments for deconstructing race are fundamentally unsound because they ignore, misinterpret or distort relevant scientific facts. Therefore, it is time to abandon the mantra about the biological meaninglessness of race. Instead of wasting our time on ‘‘refuting’’ straw-man positions dredged from a distant past or from fiction, we should deal with the strongest
contemporary attempts to rehabilitate race that are
scientifically respectable and genetically informed.
Philosophers (and others) have too long tried to destroy the
scientific notion of race in different ways; the point, however, is to understand it."