{"id":15043,"date":"2011-07-21T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2017-02-27T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:36:26","slug":"the-nature-of-race-how-scientists-think-and-teach-about-human-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15043","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520270312\" target=\"_blank\">The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a><br \/>\nJune 2011<br \/>\n328 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520270312<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780520270305<br \/>\nAdobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520950146<br \/>\nePUB Format ISBN: 9780520950146<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/annmorning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ann Morning<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520270312\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/img\/covers\/isbn13\/9780520270312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do Americans think \u201crace\u201d means? What determines one\u2019s race\u2014appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, Morning explores different conceptions of race\u2014finding for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or \u201cconstruct,\u201d anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus. She discusses powerful new genetic accounts of race, and considers how corporations and the government use scientific research\u2014for example, in designing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> ancestry tests or census questionnaires\u2014in ways that often reinforce the idea that race is biologically determined. Widening the debate about race beyond the pages of scholarly journals, <em>The Nature of Race<\/em> dissects competing definitions in straightforward language to reveal the logic and assumptions underpinning today\u2019s claims about human difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Americans think \u201crace\u201d means? What determines one\u2019s race\u2014appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,8,17,394],"tags":[562,1284],"class_list":["post-15043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-ann-morning","tag-university-of-california-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51908,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15043\/revisions\/51908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}