{"id":40288,"date":"2015-03-20T00:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T00:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40288"},"modified":"2015-03-22T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:02:25","slug":"the-evolution-of-the-idea-of-race-from-scientific-racism-to-genomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40288","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/oup-webinar-tanya-golash-boza-the-evolution-of-the-idea-of-race-tickets-15892689462\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elt.oup.com\/feature\/global\/webinars\/?cc=us&amp;selLanguage=en\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University Press Webinar<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/global.oup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University Press<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, 2015-03-20, 18:00-19:00Z, 14:00-15:00 EDT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Join Oxford University Press on Friday, March 20th for a Webinar featuring Tanya Golash-Boza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/radprof.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Golash-Boza<\/a><\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the University of California, Mereced, and the author of the acclaimed textbook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=37132\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1735, Swedish botanist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Linnaeus\" target=\"_blank\">Carolus Linnaeus<\/a> divided the world into four groups: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Linnaeus#Four_races\" target=\"_blank\">Americanus, Asiaticus, Europeanus, and Africanus<\/a>. In the 1850s, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_George_Morton\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel George Morton<\/a> measured human skulls to prove European superiority. His successor, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Broca\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Broca<\/a>, compared brain sizes. Psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Yerkes\" target=\"_blank\">R. M. Yerkes<\/a> used <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intelligence_quotient\" target=\"_blank\">IQ<\/a> tests to the same end in the early 20th century, as did <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Herrnstein\" target=\"_blank\">Herrnstein<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)\" target=\"_blank\">Murray<\/a> in the late 20th century. Today, scientists use genomics to prove there are biological differences between the races. What has changed and what has not? In this webinar, we will develop a sociological analysis of the evolution of the idea of race and of the persistence of racism.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/oup-webinar-tanya-golash-boza-the-evolution-of-the-idea-of-race-tickets-15892689462\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evolution of the Idea of Race: From Scientific Racism to Genomics Oxford University Press Webinar Oxford University Press Friday, 2015-03-20, 18:00-19:00Z, 14:00-15:00 EDT Join Oxford University Press on Friday, March 20th for a Webinar featuring Tanya Golash-Boza. Tanya Golash-Boza is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,2039,459,13,8,394],"tags":[342,19551,8656,15246],"class_list":["post-40288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-oxford-university-press-webinar","tag-tanya-golash-boza","tag-tanya-maria-golash-boza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40288","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=40288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}