{"id":4110,"date":"2009-12-30T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2009-12-30T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:22:33","slug":"%e2%80%9cif-races-don%e2%80%99t-exist-then-why-am-i-white%e2%80%9d-the-race-concept-within-contemporary-forensic-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4110","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf Races Don\u2019t Exist, Then Why Am I White?\u201d: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusanthro.org\/archive\/2008-2009\/Gross_0809.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cIf Races Don\u2019t Exist, Then Why Am I White?\u201d: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusanthro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research<\/a><br \/>\nIssue VIII: 2009<br \/>\nKenyon University<br \/>\n20 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>M. Todd Gross<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Western Michigan University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is fundamental for human beings to ask why and how things happen. Looking across the globe it is clear that this human tendency to explore our world manifests itself in a multitude of ways and in response to a variety of experiences. Among those who partake in the exploration of our world, some think the most honest way to answer the questions of \u201cwhy\u201d and \u201chow\u201d are through science. Broadly speaking, science is stated as analysis based upon observations made of an objective, observable reality. Since it involves the exploration of an objective reality, the accuracy of the labels and terms used to describe that reality are of utmost importance. <strong>In this paper, various issues will be examined in the biological and social sciences to show that the use of the race concept for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homo_sapiens\" target=\"_blank\">Homo sapiens<\/a><\/em> by forensic anthropologists is inaccurate and is both biologically and socially irresponsible. Available to forensic anthropologists are more responsible alternatives for assessing human skeletal remains, such as matching various morphological characteristics to those individuals found on missing person reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction 1<br \/>\nRace as Biology? 1<br \/>\nRace as Culture 3<br \/>\nRace in Forensic Anthropology 6<br \/>\nMisperceptions of Race in Forensic Anthropology 10<br \/>\nAlternatives to \u201cRacial\u201d Assessment of Human Skeletal Remains 13<br \/>\nKeeping Things in Perspective 15<br \/>\nConclusion 15<br \/>\nBibliography 16<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusanthro.org\/archive\/2008-2009\/Gross_0809.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf Races Don\u2019t Exist, Then Why Am I White?\u201d: The Race Concept Within Contemporary Forensic Anthropology Focus Anthropology: A Publication of Undergraduate Research Issue VIII: 2009 Kenyon University 20 pages M. Todd Gross Western Michigan University It is fundamental for human beings to ask why and how things happen. Looking across the globe it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,6,14],"tags":[1648,1650],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-new-media","category-papers","tag-focus-anthropology-a-publication-of-undergraduate-research","tag-m-todd-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","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=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}