https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJon4qIMYs Dr. Heide Castaneda on Protests, Medical Anthropology, and Migrant Health During COVID-19 Season 1 Episode 3 Recorded 2 June 2020 In this episode, William, of the podcast A Partial Perspective, talks with Dr. Heide Castañeda, a professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. They discuss issues in legal anthropology and how she... Continue Reading →
A Partial Perspective – Dr. Antoinette Jackson on Anthropology, Critical Race Theory, and Being New Department Chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb1ZptjYGo8 Dr. Antoinette Jackson on Anthropology, Critical Race Theory, and Being New Department Chair Season 1 Episode 1 Recorded: April 27, 2020 In this first episode of this relaunched podcast, A Partial Perspective, William talks with Dr Antoinette Jackson, the incoming Chair of the Applied Anthropology Department at the University of South Florida. He discusses... Continue Reading →
Anthropology of Policing
Race is a social construct. We have spoken on the concept of race, here, before. Anthropology has been at the forefront of redefining race, ancestry, and ethnicity. And many anthropologists have advocated for concepts such as race to be phased out of our culture and our police. Current events have elucidated the importance of continuing... Continue Reading →
The New York Times published a Sunday Review that I think you all will find a balanced opinion on genetics and race.
Is Genetics Changing Our Understanding Race?
Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
If you have been following this blog along with others, like GNXP, you can tell that the field of ancient DNA and population genetics is chaotic. It seems like every week we are adding more layers of genetic data in attempt to uncover the relentless and complex pattern on how we peopled the Earth. A... Continue Reading →
Race Is A Social Construct
One of our all time most popular posts here on Anthropology.net is a 2008 blog post, "Race as a Social Construct." Yesterday the journal Science published an open access paper that stated race should be phased out of current studies on human genetic diversity. Modern genetics research operate in a paradox, which that race is... Continue Reading →
National Human Genome Research Institute Debates Race
One of the pieces to appear in the latest Science is Constance Holden's synopsis of the core issues discussed at last week's meeting of the National Human Genome Research Institute: defining geographic populations, handling interpretations of race (especially as as a sociopolitical term), and phrasing results of population genetic studies. I paid cursory attention to... Continue Reading →
SLC45A2/MATP & The Genetics Of Human Hair Color
Earlier this year, I wrote a massive summary on the genetics of pigmentation for one of my graduate courses. I wasn't particularly keen on the topic before but it has since grown on me and I'm now a big fan. So to read from Yann, Dienekes, and Razib that one of the key pigmentation genes,... Continue Reading →
Higher Rates of C-Section Deliveries For Asian Mothers & White Fathers
What you may call the hip or pelvis is actually formed by the joining of ilia, ischia, pubis bones to the sacrum and the coccyx. The shape of the human pelvis is unique amongst primates and part of the complex of anatomical changes which allow us for bipedal motility. Between males and females, the pelvis... Continue Reading →
Race As A Social Construct
As Ruth Frankenberg in her book The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters argues, our daily lives are affected by race whether we are aware of it or not. We all see the world through a racial lens that colors our world black, white, Asian, Mexican, minority, or "other". How we are seen... Continue Reading →
