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Teaching Race

Morning - The Nature of Race - Teaching Race

Updated sources for teaching race anthropologically. Race is a social construction, but we need to understand that racism is what makes race salient.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags anthropology branding, genetics, Jared Diamond, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, race, racism, sports, textbooks 5 Comments

The Headline We Should Be Reading

Anthropology 2012-2013

The headline I wish we were reading is how the nation gathered to reflect on Trouillot’s work and legacy: Anthropology Changed Everything.

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Categories Anthropologists Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, capitalism, culture, David Brooks, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, racism 5 Comments

Whiteness is a Project

Glissant Caribbean Discourse - Whiteness and White Privilege

Power and how power is projected must be understood as a process, not as a thing. Whiteness & White Privilege is an ongoing project and process.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, Eric Wolf, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 3 Comments

fellow passengers in this world of ours

empathy and science

On the sorely-felt need for humility, empathy, and sympathy. On science, intelligence, Adam Smith, economics, Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags education, empathy, human nature, political economy, politics, race, Tim Ingold 4 Comments

Traditional Race Ideas

Barbujani - Delle Razze and Harpending

Anthropology has debunked traditional race ideas that humans come as 3-5 genetic types. But backlash & misunderstandings around social construction persist.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Eric Wolf, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, race, racism 28 Comments

Race & Genetics

Human Evolutionary Biology Race and Genetics - Race is a Social Construction

On race and genetics, even popular genetics bloggers acknowledge race is a social construction, something anthropologists have known for a century.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, genetics, race, racism 38 Comments

Gingrich wins South Carolina: Payoff for slapping down a black man

In 2012 Newt Gingrich wins a decisive victory in South Carolina. Race-baiting and anger still pay handsome dividends in U.S. politics.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags politics, race, racism 3 Comments

Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean 2012

Sanabria - Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean is less about “peoples and cultures” and more about processes at work across the Americas.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags cultural relativism, culture, gender, immigration, Jared Diamond, Latin America, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, race, race mixing, racism, sexuality, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 19 Comments

Seizing the Holistic Moment

Anthropology on Race

The innuendo on race and IQ is an opportunity to revisit anthropology on race and seize holistic understandings to reclaim this issue for anthropology.

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, ethnobiogeny, evolution, genetics, race, racism 6 Comments

Admixture All the Way Down

Malinowski - Sexual Life - Admixture

Despite Nicholas Wade’s emphasis on splits among human groups, the research is clear that it’s admixture all the way down. Plus some Malinowski!

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Categories Biological Anthropology Tags Denisovans, education, Eric Wolf, evolution, genetics, human nature, Nicholas Wade, race, race mixing, sex, sexuality, Sidney Mintz 9 Comments

Mismeasuring Gould

Mismeasure of Man - Mismeasure of Science

“The Mismeasure of Science” reassessed Gould’s “Mismeasure of Man.” In a climate of race resurgence and attacking anthropology, this was a horrible idea.

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, evolution, genetics, Nicholas Wade, politics, race, racism 22 Comments

Are Perceptions of Anti-White Bias Increasing?

Anti-White Bias Graph 2011

2011 article “Is Anti-White Bias a Problem?” revealed a delusion of perceived anti-white bias, but researchers deceptively argued it was new or increasing.

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Anthropology 101 in 2011

This post on Anthropology 101 in 2011 was a call to action for introductory courses to address the big themes of Human Nature, Race, & Evolution.

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Categories Anthropology Courses Tags ambushing anthropology, anthropology branding, culture, David Brooks, education, evolution, genetics, human nature, Jared Diamond, race, racism, textbooks 4 Comments

Racism Reality Check

Reproducing Race - Race Remixed

The idea of “Race Remixed” was always questionable. Census numbers didn’t show remixing, but a racism of persistent inequalities and “probationary whites.”

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Categories Scathing Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, capitalism, immigration, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, political economy, politics, race, race mixing, racism 21 Comments

Anthropology Textbooks: Doubling down on culture?

Doubling Down on Culture in Anthropology

Kottak and Gezon’s Culture uses a magazine-style textbook to double down on culture in anthropology. That’s problematic–culture is already everywhere.

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Categories Cultural Anthropology Tags anthropology branding, cultural relativism, culture, education, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, politics, race, Ruth Benedict, Sidney Mintz, textbooks 6 Comments
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