Jun 13, 2019
"Race is a social construct" ok but what does that mean exactly?
What is race? Why was it invented? How? And what the hell are we
supposed to do with this information?
Dr. Michael Rivera, a biological anthropologist who authored a
forthcoming textbook chapter about race, explains why race is not
biologically valid. Joshua Jiang, Helen Yang, and Lars Chen discuss
their experiences in Asian-American and "mixed race" campus
activism and critique liberal approaches to anti-racism. Biologist
Shay-Akil McLean, who recently authored a journal article
“Social Problems, Structural Issues, and
Unsettling Science“ in American Anthropologist, pushes us to
identify the specific social sites where race is constructed.
Thank you to everyone who was a test-listener for this episode - the real MVPs.
Shay-Akil McLean is @hood_biologist on Twitter
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