Paper/Presentation tiopic

1. Title (work in progress): The Falsities behind Biological Race

2. Bibliography

Bliss, Catherine

2012. Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice. Proquest ebrary.      http://site.ebrary.com.libproxy.uncg.edu/lib/uncgreen/detail.action?docID=10546502 accessed November 8, 2014

Fabian, Ann

  2010. The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Fish, Jefferson M.

2002. Race and intelligence separating science from myth. e-book collection (EBSCOhost). http://site.ebrary.com/id/10477469 accessed November 8, 2014

Graves, Joseph L.

  2004. The Race Myth: Why We Still Pretend Race Still Exists in America. New York: Dutton.

Marks, Jonathan

  1995. Human biodiversity: genes, race, and history. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

3. Elevator pitch: The idea of biological race was discredited over six decades ago and began to be widely accepted by the anthropological community as a myth by the 1960's. Still over the years, before and after biological race was debunked, studies have been done in craniometry, IQ tests, and genetics to try to validate biological race. Now, even with studies such as the Human Genome Project, biological race is something still widely accepted by the general public today. How has this past believe in biological race affected the views of American people to this day? How is the myth of biological race still not widely known? 

4. Theory: Several studies were done in the past to prove race as biological. Morton studied craniometry (inaccurately) to prove biological race and other physical variations could back up the claim to biological race. These studies detrimentally hurt views on race. While more studies have been done to falsify any claims to biological race, including studies in phrenology, forensic anthropology, and genetics, many people still believe in biology proving race. In the early- to mid-20th century, anthropologists like Franz Boas and Ashley Montagu greatly influenced the then newly changing ideas about race and helped lead to the discoveries made about race today.