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Speaking of Race

Speaking of Race

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How did race become such a flash point in modern society, and why does it remain contentious in our genomic age? In this first-of-its-kind trans-disciplinary podcast, biological anthropologist Jim Bindon joins with cultural anthropologist Lesley Jo Weaver and historian of science Erik L. Peterson to explore our species centuries' long debates over how to define biological and behavioral difference, and why it continues to matter today. See more about us at: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/
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In this episode we interview Erik Peterson about the book he recently released with fellow historian, Margaret Peacock, about the crazy pandemic year of 2020. Race features prominently throughout!Some resources:The website that accompanies the book: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/pandemicbook/The book: https://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Sickness-Journal-Americ…
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In this episode we respond to a listener question about our top 5 examples of scientific racism. Unfortunately, in the five years of this podcast, we’ve only discussed two of these people/topics, so we’ve got a lot of work to do to get up to speed. The transcript includes references and resources for these topics: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/uploa…
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At least since Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 classic Mismeasure of Man, Darwin has been characterized as a kindly anti-racist while Morton has been characterized as a founding father of scientific racism. We argue that the two men were much more alike in their views on both slavery and race.על ידי Speaking of Race
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In this episode, we talk with evolutionary biologist Joe Graves and biological anthropologist Alan Goodman about their roles as thought leaders on public education around race, racism, and science (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/racism-not-race/9780231200660). They tell us about how they came to collaborate on their new book Racism not Race: Answers…
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Eugenics: the science and practice of promoting “good breeding” among humans. An early-20th-century movement so steeped in white supremacy that even some white people don’t count, much less people of color. Here we begin a series with more than you ever wanted to know about the sinister history of eugenics, including mass sterilization campaigns in…
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The idea that race is a biological reality has hung on longest and strongest in the parts of biological anthropology that deal with skeletal remains. In this episode we talk with two forensic anthropologists, Sean Tallman and Allysha Winburn, about how typological notions of race and ancestry have changed over time in this segment of the discipline…
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Nocturnal Animals v All That We Destroy on the roulette, and we chat The Green Knight, Ghost, Star Trek 1-4, Malignant, Open Water 2: Adrift, Fast Company, Kate, Carrion, Don't Breathe 2, Mail Order Murder, Lone Wolf and Cub 1-6, and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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Racial equality is a new idea, right? Wrong! Meet Anténor Firmin, renegade Haitian intellectual of the late 19th century. He traveled all over the world, duked it out with elite scientific racists, hung out with Frederick Douglass, even ran for president -- but was exiled. Twice. On this episode, we discuss the Haitian anthropologist whose work is …
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The Russia House v Carnival of Souls on the roulette, and we chat Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy, The Forever Purge, No Sudden Move, Talladega Nights, Things Heard and Seen, X-Men, X-Men 2: X-Men United, G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, Noah, and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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The Big Chill v Horsehead on the roulette, and we chat War of the Roses, Loki: Season One, Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, Fear Street Part Three: 1666, The Ice Road, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, Mom and Dad, and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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In this episode we finish our discussion of skin color with genetic and evolutionary models proposed throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Spoiler alert: It's complicated!Script and resources available here: http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/uploads/1/1/0/5/110557873/skin_color_-_2.pdfעל ידי Speaking of Race
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Skin color is probably THE key thing we think of when we think about race these days, but it wasn't always that way. In this episode, we ask: where and when did skin color become the trait most associated with race? There's so much to talk about that we don't quite make it up to the present day--stay tuned for a sequel where we discuss contemporary…
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Land of Doom v Psycho Gore Man on the roulette, we rabbit trail about the state of post pandemic cinema, movies that we changed our minds on, sportsball, and chat Cowboy Bebop, Love Death + Robots 2, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Moxie, Into the Grizzly Maze, Wrath of Man, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, and much more!…
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Shadow in the Cloud v Stay Out of the F**king Attic on the roulette, and we chat Bloody Sunday, '71, Fright Night (2011), Mortal Kombat (2021), Violation, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Season One, Crimes of the Black Cat, The Men's Club, and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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What does it mean to “decolonize” teaching and scholarship? Why would we want to do that? And how? We take on these questions and more in a panel discussion with social scientists and established scholars of race Lance Gravlee, John L. Jackson Jr., Stephanie McClure, and Yolanda Moses. Some Resources:Blum, Susan D., and Alfie Kohn, eds. (2020). Ung…
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In this episode we interview historian of science Iris Clever about her research untangling the early 20th century entanglements of the biometricians, physical anthropology, and race. She pursues this topic through the exploration of work by the statistician and Galton protégé, Karl Pearson, and one of Pearson’s favorite students, Geoffrey Morant. …
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Reset v The Black Castle on the roulette, we rabbit trail about the state of comic book movies, and chat The Stand (2020), Space Sweepers, Willy's Wonderland, Forbidden Planet, Mr. Right, 30 Minutes or Less, The Big Gundown, Mulan (2020), The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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In this episode we talk with Paul Wolff Mitchell, of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, about the skull measurements of 19th century founding father of the American School of Anthropology, Samuel George Morton. Morton used his skull measurements to provide scientific support for polygenism (multiple origins of human r…
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Dr. Strange (1978) v Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight, and we chat Motherless Brooklyn, Gemini Man, Shadow in the Clouds, The Descent, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, The Hobbit trilogy, Angry Red Planet, I, Robot, Seven in Heaven, and much more!על ידי Erik Marner and Eugene Weaver
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