The concept of race is one of the most academically and emotionally charged subjects in the field of Anthropology. ... Because of his extensive background in forensic anthropology, Dr. ... Without race, there wouldn't be this need to create a hierarchy of different groups of people based on physical traits. ... The one that everyone is most familiar with is a group of people that share a physical trait, such as skin color. ... There is no reason for anthropological research to be held back by terminology that confuses rather than illuminates the world. ...

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The Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture In African American Women's Studies Leith Mullings is the Presidential Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Program in Medical Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City of University of New York. ... The research project was funded by the Centers for Disease and Control, and was produced as a guide for society to help better understand Black women's lives in the contexts of social, political, economic, and physical issues. ...

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Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and reprinted several critical works and books on the history of his people, and made them available to the public. Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. Locke's books are sti...

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Section I: Book Length Works Alain Locke's career in publishing spanned over a quarter of a century; from the 1920's to the 1950's. He established the Associates in Negro Folk Education, an organization created to collect and share and accurate history of African Americans. Locke published and reprinted several critical works and books on the history of his people, and made them available to the public. Alain Locke was also known as an American philosopher and is credited for writing influential works on philosophy, art, aesthetics, and education. Locke's books are sti...

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It's also rather amusing how Giddings mentioned how many of these self-proclaimed anthropology experts attempted to tie in Darwinism with welfare, saying that welfare was bad for society as a whole because it retarded the whole survival-of-the-fittest evolutionary pattern. ... A December 8, 1997, edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, which I have in my bookshelf, was entitled "What Ever Happened to the White Athlete" in which it came to the conclusion that African-American athletes were dominating the sports industry because they had wider hips and other various physical differences. ...

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