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Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

, 2016
Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century By Michael Yudell (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014) (274 pages; $40.00 cloth)In Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century, historian Mike Yudell analyzes the race ...
B. Wall
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Geneticists and the Biology of Race Crossing

Science, 1973
Geneticists in England and the United States clearly reversed their published remarks on the effects of race crossing between 1930 and 1950. The reversal occurred in two steps. First came the change in the 1930's from a condemnation of wide race crosses to an agnostic view.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. A race to vaccinate rare seals.

Science, 2016
In Hawaii, biologists have launched an unusual conservation campaign: For the first time, they are attempting to vaccinate a wild population of seagoing mammals in order to protect the animals from a potentially devastating virus.
D. Malakoff
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Biology, Complexion, and Socioeconomic Status: Accounting for Nineteenth Century Body Mass Index by Race

, 2015
Nineteenth-century US whites were taller than their mulatto and darker complexioned African-American counterparts, a pattern known as the ‘Mulatto Advantage’.
S. Carson
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Doing Justice to Bodies? Reflections on Food Justice, Race, and Biology

, 2014
: The food justice concept takes disproportionate prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes among people of color as evidence of injustice. Yet several measurements of obesity are based on norms derived from white bodies, which can also be a source of ...
J. Guthman
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Refiguring “Race”: Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations

International Journal of Health Services, 2000
Given growing appreciation of how race/ethnicity is a social, not biological, construct, some epidemiologists are proposing that studies omit data on “race” and instead collect better socioeconomic data. This suggestion, however, ignores a growing body of evidence on how noneconomic as well as economic aspects of racial discrimination are embodied and
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Race and Biology

2016
Abstract This chapter reminds us that, amid the surge of interest in eugenics, were the ‘countervailing’ voices of writers such as Mona Caird, William James, and the anthropologist Franz Boas. These thinkers contested biological and racial determinism’s apparent hegemony, even while many of their contemporaries like Ibsen, Hardy, and ...
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Metaphysics of Race

Are races real? Is race a biological or social category? What role, if any, does race play in scientific explanations? This Cambridge Element addresses these and other core questions in the metaphysics of race.
K. H. Kalewold
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Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science

Quarterly Journal of Economics
This paper investigates how competition to publish first and thereby establish priority impacts the quality of scientific research. We begin by developing a model where scientists decide whether and how long to work on a given project.
Ryan Hill, Carolyn Stein
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Redefining Race: UNESCO, the Biology of Race Crossing, and the Wane of the Eugenics Movement

2018
The Statements on Race published by the newly formed UNESCO between 1950 and 1969 represented a turning point in scientists’ thinking about race, finally laying to rest the idea that interracial mixing carried adverse, biologically mediated risks. This marked the end of racial science in the form that had informed Darwinism, eugenics and Nazi ideology.
Peter J. Aspinall, Chamion Caballero
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