Wayne State University Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints WSU Press 3-23-2020 Isolation by Distance and the Problem of the 21st Century Shay-Akil McLean University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints Recommended Citation McLean, Shay-Akil, "Isolation by Distance and the Problem of the 21st Century" (2020). Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints. 159. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints/159 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WSU Press at DigitalCommons@WayneState. It has been accepted for inclusion in Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WayneState. Isolation by Distance and the Problem of the 21st Century Shay-Akil McLean1* 1Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA. *Correspondence to: Shay-Akil McLean, 286 Morrill Hall, MC-120, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 505 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 USA. E-mail:
[email protected]. Short Title: Isolation by Distance and the Problem of the 21st Century KEY WORDS: RACE, RACISM, ISOLATION BY DISTANCE, DU BOIS The greatest difficulty we face is first of all to excavate our actual history. —James Baldwin ...contrary to what you may have heard or learned, the past is not done and it is not over, it’s still in process, which is another way of saying that when it’s critiqued, analyzed, it yields new information about itself. —Toni Morrison Pre-print version. Visit http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/ after publication to acquire the final version.