Understanding racism in physical (biological) anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8313879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M L Blakey (0000-0002-2906-1777, Institute for Historical Biology and Department of Anthropology William & Mary Williamsburg Virginia USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 175 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 316-325 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.24208 |
| PMID | 33372273 |
| OpenAlex | W3114911408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 46 |
The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted “non‐Nordic” immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti‐racial than anti‐racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white space, biological anthropology continues to deny its own racist history and marginalizes the contributions of Blacks. Critical disciplinary history and a shift toward biocultural studies might begin an anti‐racist human biology
Archaeology · Biological anthropology · Biology · Discipline · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Human biology · Immigration · Mainstream · Political science · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · White (mutation) · World War II · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society
“One of Us or One of Them”
Black Bones Matter
On Making Descendant Communities
Adjusting the Aperture
Assessing Violence in a Museum Collection of Human Remains
Reflections on methods to estimate race and ancestry on reference osteological samples in the Brazilian context
Scanning the human genome for “signatures” of positive selection
Diversity, Representation, and Inclusion in Forensic Anthropology
Racialized Travel Writing on Kuwait
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology
On the persistence of race
Twenty-first century bioarchaeology
A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States
Coping mechanisms during the Covid ‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa
Bioethics Recommendations to Increase Culturally Informed Global Health Survey Research
Challenging the binary
Containing Histories Past and Present
Remembering Leith
Not just in the past
Looking Upstream
Archaeologies of whiteness
Historical Anatomical Collections of Human Remains
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology
Bioarchaeological Approaches to African Diasporas in the Twenty-First Century
Year without End
What makes a "good" forensic anthropologist
A Century of Nature
An Ethical Epistemology of Publicly Engaged Biocultural Research
Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Australopithecus africanus The Man-Ape of South Africa
The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man
The structure of scientific revolutions
Stamped from the Beginning
Reinventing anthropology.
Einstein on Race and Racism
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Race and other misadventures
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990)
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
Racism Without Racists
Racing around, getting nowhere
Physical anthropology
White Fragility
The Health and Physique of the Negro American
Two faces of earnest A. Hooton
The emergence of human warfare
Anthropology of the American negro. Historical notes
Seizing intellectual power
The full‐blood American negro
At the Frontiers of Anthropology
The Passing of the Great Race
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
The Negro as a Biological Element in the American Population
Multispecies ethnography from the perspective of Japanese primate social interaction studies
A Century of Skeletal Biology and Paleopathology
Anténor Firmin
Theorizing in ex-centric sites
Intrinsic Social and Political Bias in the History of American Physical Anthropology
A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the History of Violence
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas
Special Section
Archaeology under the Blinding Light of Race
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
On the biodeterministic imagination
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |