ANTH 365: Scientific Racism and Human Variation

ANTH 365-001: Race and Human Variation
(Fall 2016)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW

Section Information for Fall 2016

Explores the social consequences of scientific racism and social contexts that encouraged scientific research to produce spurious racist results. Challenges the idea of race as a biological concept, while exploring the biologically embodied consequences of institutionalized racism, with a focus on health and disease, growth, and adaptation. 

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Explores scientific methods of classification as a reflection of social values. Explains the harms of “race” and eugenics committed under the aegis of science. While critiquing the biological concept of race, considers how the social construction of race becomes part of living bodies through racism. Details modern human variation as a product of evolutionary forces. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: ANTH 135, 60 hours or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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