David Berreby
Author, Us and Them: The Science of Identity
David Berreby is the author of "Us and Them: The Science of Identity." He has written about human behavior and other science topics for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Smithsonian, The New Republic, Nature, Discover, Vogue and many other publications. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Paris, a Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory, a resident at Yaddo, and in 2006 was awarded the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship for the first edition of "Us and Them." David can be found on Twitter at @davidberreby and reached by email at david [at] davidberreby [dot] com.
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Let’s Hope Not, But It Could Be, Indirectly
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Why It’s OK to Talk About White Prejudice Rather Than Prejudice in General
You Can’t Wipe Out Racism by Pretending You Don’t See Race
Why politics is getting violent
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Will aliens look like the people next door? I hope not.
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