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Race, as a social construct, is a group of people who share similar and distinctive physical characteristics. First used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations, by the 17th century race began to refer to physical (i.e. phenotypical) traits. The term was often used in a general biological taxonomic sense, starting from the 19th century, to denote genetically differentiated human populations defined by phenotype.
Social conceptions and groupings of races vary over time, involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of individuals based on perceived traits. Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.
Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptualizations of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways, some of which have essentialist implications. While some researchers sometimes use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive or simplistic way, and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.
Perhaps I was too harsh on the "race realists" in my previous video. Human races exist in about the same way that eras in history exist. They are arbitrary and useful as broad generalizations. What I think I can easily show is that the Victorian idea of race essentialism: that the categories themselves are somehow more meaningful than any other, or that they are homotypic, is unscientific. Part 2 will cover more on this topic, particularly the abuse of the sociological definition of race to justify a kind of genetic determinism. A great number of primary sources went into the research for this video. I've annotated when I used figures, but you may also find the following articles useful in learning more: 1. "Evidence for Gradients of Human Genetic Diversity Within and Among Contine...
In a world divided by race, do we as people really understand what this construct, “Race” really means? This talk breaks down the racial categories and gets us wondering, can we move past these categories? Teja’s father is African-American, Native-American, Filipino-Chinese, and his mother is German Danish. He grew up in Japan, and has two adopted daughters who are ethnically Chinese. His multiracial and multiethnic identity has provided the platform for him to speak at over 1,000 colleges, universities and corporations in 48 states. Teja has his Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Filmmaking from Clark University and serves as the Creative Director for Entertaining Diversity, Inc. He is the recipient of an EMMY award for Reflections with James Earl Jones. With Clark University as is hi...
I felt like giving facts about a topic that a lot of people are nervous to talk about. But when you're a sincere person with a human perspective rather than a "racial" perspective, then it shouldn't matter to anyone. Black people, White people, Asian people, Native American people... The root word there is people, and quite frankly the word before that shouldn't matter when it comes to understanding each other by what we all really are, and that's Homo sapiens. Human. Link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd3ulzSvfhwx2ibd0mWHPCQ Link to my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/DaleWinslow The song is called: I Will Continue On Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFs8OVRrJU And was made by: teknoaxe Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtgf00GvfFQ...
Racial groups and criteria of its classification. Classroom Lecture by Dr. Tejbir S. Rana, Shivaji College, University of Delhi. Class: B.A.(Hons.) Geography 6th Semester, Geography of India.
Subject:Anthropology Paper:Physical/Biological Anthropology
Racial groups and criteria of its classification part-2 Classroom Lecture by Dr. Tejbir S. Rana, Shivaji College, University of Delhi. Class: B.A.(Hons.) Geography 6th Semester, Geography of India.
Why are some people racist, but others are not? Follow Natalia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natalia13reagan Read More: The Surprising Science of Race and Racism http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/30/racism-race-explained-science-anthropologist_n_7687842.html “What causes racism? And what can be done to overcome our nation's legacy of intolerance and hatred?” Weathering: stress and heart disease in African American women living in Chicago. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16394211 “Researchers have suggested that lifelong chronic and cumulative exposure to social and economic stressors is associated with early onset of chronic illness in African American women.” The Myth of Race http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417311 “Biological races do not...
You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461/race-social-construct-origins-census Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
Perhaps I was too harsh on the "race realists" in my previous video. Human races exist in about the same way that eras in history exist. They are arbitrary and useful as broad generalizations. What I think I can easily show is that the Victorian idea of race essentialism: that the categories themselves are somehow more meaningful than any other, or that they are homotypic, is unscientific. Part 2 will cover more on this topic, particularly the abuse of the sociological definition of race to justify a kind of genetic determinism. A great number of primary sources went into the research for this video. I've annotated when I used figures, but you may also find the following articles useful in learning more: 1. "Evidence for Gradients of Human Genetic Diversity Within and Among Contine...
In a world divided by race, do we as people really understand what this construct, “Race” really means? This talk breaks down the racial categories and gets us wondering, can we move past these categories? Teja’s father is African-American, Native-American, Filipino-Chinese, and his mother is German Danish. He grew up in Japan, and has two adopted daughters who are ethnically Chinese. His multiracial and multiethnic identity has provided the platform for him to speak at over 1,000 colleges, universities and corporations in 48 states. Teja has his Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Filmmaking from Clark University and serves as the Creative Director for Entertaining Diversity, Inc. He is the recipient of an EMMY award for Reflections with James Earl Jones. With Clark University as is hi...
I felt like giving facts about a topic that a lot of people are nervous to talk about. But when you're a sincere person with a human perspective rather than a "racial" perspective, then it shouldn't matter to anyone. Black people, White people, Asian people, Native American people... The root word there is people, and quite frankly the word before that shouldn't matter when it comes to understanding each other by what we all really are, and that's Homo sapiens. Human. Link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd3ulzSvfhwx2ibd0mWHPCQ Link to my Twitter account: https://twitter.com/DaleWinslow The song is called: I Will Continue On Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFs8OVRrJU And was made by: teknoaxe Link to channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtgf00GvfFQ...
Racial groups and criteria of its classification. Classroom Lecture by Dr. Tejbir S. Rana, Shivaji College, University of Delhi. Class: B.A.(Hons.) Geography 6th Semester, Geography of India.
Subject:Anthropology Paper:Physical/Biological Anthropology
Racial groups and criteria of its classification part-2 Classroom Lecture by Dr. Tejbir S. Rana, Shivaji College, University of Delhi. Class: B.A.(Hons.) Geography 6th Semester, Geography of India.
Why are some people racist, but others are not? Follow Natalia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natalia13reagan Read More: The Surprising Science of Race and Racism http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/30/racism-race-explained-science-anthropologist_n_7687842.html “What causes racism? And what can be done to overcome our nation's legacy of intolerance and hatred?” Weathering: stress and heart disease in African American women living in Chicago. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16394211 “Researchers have suggested that lifelong chronic and cumulative exposure to social and economic stressors is associated with early onset of chronic illness in African American women.” The Myth of Race http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674417311 “Biological races do not...
You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461/race-social-construct-origins-census Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
The Science of Evolution and Human Races. Race is the classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, ancestry, genetics or social relations, or the relations between them. This Video was made by C0nc0rdance, look him up on youtube!
Myles Jackson, Bosch Public Policy Fellow in the Fall 2014, explains how he has used the CCR5 gene as a heuristic tool to probe three critical developments in biotechnology from 1990 to 2010: gene patenting, HIV/AIDS diagnostics and therapeutics, and race and genomics. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Jackson ties together intellectual property, the sociology of race, and molecular biology by showing how certain patent regimes have rewarded different forms of intellectual property. The decision to patent genes was not inevitable, Jackson argues, nor ‘natural.’ Likewise, there is nothing inevitable about using race as a major category of human classification. Jackson explains the economic and political interests that provide the impetus for making those choices and explains the alterna...
Interview with Edith Mirante, the author of the new book, “The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia’s ‘Negrito’ Indigenous People.” Edith discusses the subject matter for the book and also features a number of photographs from her travels in the areas discussed. This important new book reveals the plight of tribal Asians who were classified as a separate race and considered doomed to vanish. Defined as “Negrito” because they physically resemble small Africans, they may be descended from a first wave of migration out of Africa to Asia in prehistoric times. Called “savage pygmies” and “hideous dwarfs,” sold into slavery, exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, nearly exterminated by disease and a cataclysmic volcano, these extraordinary people now survive as forest hunter...
Book Discussion Sponsored by the United States Studies Program Just over a decade ago, the Human Genome Project decisively proved that there is no genetic basis for racial classifications. Yet with the emergence of new reproductive technologies, genetic ancestry testing, and race‐specific drugs, the second decade of the twenty‐first century is seeing a resurgence of scientifically‐justified racial discrimination. In her new book, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts argues that for the first time in decades science, politics, and race are working hand‐in‐hand, with the result that America has not, in fact, become the "post‐racial society" that so many envision. Join us on July 22 for a stimulating discussion of this alarming new trend.
Tired ramblings. A relatively old video that never got uploaded. Excuse the low audio, the poor editing and the ramblings. When you turn away is a tree still there? I say yes. There is a physicall reality, that our subjective perception of reality, does not change. Our individual wishes and perceptions that it is not there, does not change the objective reality that it infact still is there. In this video I provide the definition of race and show references and evidence related to what I'll be talking about. Namely, do human races exist? Why are they not called races if the old traditional races match almost to a T the modern clusters and it carry predictable power and has accurate classification? And could the races be quite different (barely touch this one)?