Race biology

How race becomes biology: embodiment of social inequality.

The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the most important venue for advancing both scientific and public understanding of race, racism, and human biological variation. In the United States and elsewhere, there are well-defined inequalities between racially defined groups for a range of biological outcomes-cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, certain cancers, low ...

Race and Biology: Changing Currents in Muddy Waters

1 This paper was presented at the interdisciplinary conference “Race and Human Variation: Setting an Agenda for Future Research and Education,” sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and funded by the Ford Foundation. The conference, an activity of AAA’s public education project Understanding Race and Human Variation funded by the National Science Foundation and the Ford Fo...

Biology leads the race to turn sunlight into fuels

Reconstructing race in science and society: biology textbooks, 1952-2002.

How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transforma...

A new physiologic race