Speaking of Race - Podcast
1) Eugenics, part 2
In this episode we describe some of the early roots of eugenics and Erik describes his three-ingredient model for eugenics. TranscriptFile Size: 1009 kbFile Type: pdfDownload File [...]
2) A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year
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...Show More
3) Top 5 Scientific Racisms
Speaking of Race · Top 5 Scientific RacismsIn 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...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Great is whose sin?
Speaking of Race · Great is whose sin?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 ...Show More
5) Racism Not Race
Speaking of Race · Racism Not RaceIn this episode, we talk with evolutionary biologist Joe Graves and biological anthropologist Alan Goodman about their roles as thought leaders on public education a...Show More
6) Eugenics, Part 1
Speaking of Race · Eugenics, part 1Eugenics: the science and practice of promoting “good breeding” among humans. An early-20th-century movement so steeped in white supremacy that even some white peopl...Show More
7) Race and Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology
Speaking of Race · Race and Ancestry in Forensic AnthropologyThe idea that race is a biological reality has hung on longest and strongest in the parts of biological anthropology that deal with skeleta...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Anténor Firmin
Speaking of Race · FirminRacial 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 el...Show More
9) Skin Color, part 2
Speaking of Race · Skin Color, part 2In 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: ...Show More
10) History of Skin Color
Speaking of Race · History of Skin ColorSkin 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...Show More