For more than 50 years, biological anthropology has argued against the use of the biological
race concept. Despite such efforts, aspects of the concept remain in circulation within society …

summary What do we know about race today? Is it surprising that after a hundred years of
debate and inquiry by anthropologists, the answer not only remains uncertain but the very …

Race has been a core concept in anthropology since the inception of the discipline. For the
last century, anthropologists have grappled with the problem of racial analysis with little …

Deconstructing Race: Racial Thinking, Geographic Variation, and Implications for Biological
Anthropology Page 1 INTRODUCTION Over the last century, anthropological discourse about …

The starting point for most anthropologists who critically engage general assumptions about
race is that it is socially constructed. This basic stance, which grounds much of our teaching …

A consortium of leading scientists across the disciplines from biology to physical
anthropology issued a “Revised UNESCO Statement on Race” in 1995—a definitive …

Race, a core concept in anthropology since its inception, has managed to resist any agreed-
upon and repeatable definition (Brace 1982a; Molnar 1975). Rather, this most chameleon …

This paper is a review of how and why the race concept has changed in the United States
during the 20th century. In the 19th century the concept of race provided the unchallenged …

This chapter focuses on the relationship between the race concept and paleoanthropology.
At its core lies polygenism, the idea that links the race concept to the study of human …

Races exist in humans in a cultural sense, but it is essential to use biological concepts of
race that are applied to other species to see whether human races exist in a manner that …