Episode 8: Anthropology and Racism and “Race Science”

**Gill does say f**k two times (one right after the other) in this episode, just so you know!

In this episode, Lulu, Gill and Kelsey continue the conversation from episode 7 on racism and specifically how our field has, and continues to, contribute to racism and "race science." At what point do we throw out the whole discipline and start from scratch?

Listen to these three struggle to get their thoughts out, and ultimately conclude that listeners should listen to more knowledgeable BIPOC who have done tons of research on the subject, including Leith Mullings and Jeannette Armstrong (seriously, go listen to them!).

Kelsey would also like to give credit for the "privileged skin, privileged tongues", as well as some other ideas presented, as a result of her reflections based on conversations had at the PETF Emergence Webinar Series. Thank you to everyone who shared your ideas there.

Intro/Outro Music:

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

American Anthropological Association - Leith Mullings. (Feb. 25, 2014). Video. Presidential Address 2013 Mobile Friendly. Youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pYT0KzzQo&t=194s

Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University. A Timeline of Scientific Racism. https://apa.nyu.edu/hauntedfiles/about/timeline/

Bioneers - Jeannette Armstrong. (Dec. 19, 2014). Video. Jeannette Armstrong - Human Relationship as Land Ethic | Bioneers. Youtube.com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwNoX3MNisE

CBC https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-16-watching-wildfire-with-radar-the-return-of-race-science-and-more-1.5359599/the-return-of-race-science-the-quest-to-fortify-racism-with-bad-biology-1.5359610

Goodman, Alan. (2000). Why Genes Don't Count (for Racial Differences in Health). American Journal of Public Health, 90(11): 1699-1702.

Mullings, Leith. (2005). Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 34. Pp. 667-693.

Royal, Charmaine D.M & Dunston, Georgia M. (2004). Changing the paradigm from ‘race’ to human genome variation. Nature Genetics Supplement 36(11):S5-7.

Smedley, Audrey and Smedley, Brian D. (2005).  Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social

Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race. American Psychologist. 60(1): 16-26. http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c4ca/5bcd7bf7d92e