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Refiguring “Race”: Epidemiology, Racialized Biology, and Biological Expressions of Race Relations
International Journal of Health Services, 2000Given 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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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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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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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 EconomicsThis 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
2018The 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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The Confounding of Race in High School Biology Textbooks, 2014–2019
, 2020J. Willinsky
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How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2009AbstractThe current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the most important venue for advancing both scientific and public understanding of race, racism, and human biological variation. In the United States and elsewhere, there are well‐defined inequalities between racially defined groups for a range of biological outcomes ...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1986 ‘Race as Biology Is Fiction’: The Bad Blood of the Vampire
2014While in vampire narratives the monstrous consumer was gendered, it was also defined in terms of race and ethnicity. If medical discourse has historically demonised certain nationalities with theories of degeneration and race, vampire tales have demonised the racial other as vampiric and all-consuming.
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Race, Reason, and Rubbish. A Primer of Race Biology.
American Sociological Review, 1943Gunnar Dahlberg, Thomas C. McCormick
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