{"id":39116,"date":"2014-12-29T02:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39116"},"modified":"2014-12-29T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T02:48:29","slug":"race-unmasked-explores-sciences-racial-past-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39116","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Race Unmasked\u2019 explores science\u2019s racial past, present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/%E2%80%98race-unmasked%E2%80%99-explores-science%E2%80%99s-racial-past-present\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Race Unmasked\u2019 explores science\u2019s racial past, present<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science News: Magazine of the Society for Science &amp; The Public<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-30<br \/>\nMagazine Issue: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/sn-magazine\/december-13-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 186, Number 12, December 13, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bbello@sciencenews.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bryan Bello<\/strong><\/a>, Editorial Assistant<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38808\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century<\/em><\/a>. Michael Yudell. Columbia University Press, $40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 1921 and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Museum_of_Natural_History\" target=\"_blank\">American Museum of Natural History<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> is packed with visitors eager to learn about the hot science of eugenics. AMNH staff dubs its conference and exhibit \u201cthe most important scientific meeting ever held in the museum.\u201d In his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/publichealth.drexel.edu\/academics\/faculty\/Michael%20Yudell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yudell<\/a>, a historian of public health, argues that the complicated interaction of science and race visible in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">eugenics<\/a> movement is still playing out. \u201cThinking in the natural sciences has influenced the continued evolution of racist ideology in the United States,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>An inversion also holds true: Racist ideology has shaped \u2014 and continues to sway \u2014 the evolution of science. The result is a constant trade-off of influence between popular culture and science.<\/p>\n<p>Yudell dissects key moments in innovation. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mendelian_inheritance\" target=\"_blank\">Mendelian genetics<\/a> arose and was appropriated by eugenicists to falsely link complex personal attributes to heredity.\u00a0 In addition, by midcentury, leading anthropologists accepted Africa as the birthplace of the genus <em>Homo<\/em>, but then several researchers spun off theories positing that different races are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_sapiens\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Homo sapiens<\/em><\/a> subspecies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/%E2%80%98race-unmasked%E2%80%99-explores-science%E2%80%99s-racial-past-present\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Race Unmasked\u2019 explores science\u2019s racial past, present Science News: Magazine of the Society for Science &amp; The Public 2014-11-30 Magazine Issue: Volume 186, Number 12, December 13, 2014 Bryan Bello, Editorial Assistant Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century. Michael Yudell. Columbia University Press, $40 It\u2019s 1921 and the American Museum of Natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,2039,8],"tags":[18907,3414,18906,18905],"class_list":["post-39116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-bryan-bello","tag-michael-yudell","tag-science-news","tag-science-news-magazine-of-the-society-for-science-the-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39116","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=39116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}