ANTH 3360 - Race: Biological Fact or Cultural Construct?

Goals: To understand and critically evaluate the concept of race in the history of anthropology and to understand the role anthropology has played in the development of a Euro-American racial world view. To understand the biological processes that produce clinal patterns of human variation and the distinction between these processes and the cultural construction of racial categories.

Content: The race concept, biological determinism, Boasian opposition to racial determinism, polytypic human variation and adaptation, behavioral genetics, American racial worldview and its attitudinal, behavioral, and institutional manifestation as racism.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.