21A.240 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate

Race and Science

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1 Introduction  
2 Crash Course in the Category of Race as Biological Phantom and Social Reality  
Part 1: The Alchemy of Race: Making and Unmaking Scientific Racism
3 Blood, Sex, and Skeletons: Colonialism, Climatic Determinism, Cranial Capacity, and the Rise of Monogenist and Polygenist Scientific Racism  
4 Germ Plasm: American and British Eugenics  
5 Skin Color, Bodily Form: Laws of Science and Laws of the Land in the Context of Immigration, Assimilation and Early 20th-Century American Anthropology  
6 Health and Hygiene: Latin American Lamarckism, Nazi German Darwinism  
7 From Population to Genome: Race after World War Two Paper 1 due
8 Race and Medicine  
Part 2: Reformulating Race: Making and Remaking the Idioms of Science
9 Alternative Histories and Futures for the Racial Economy of Science  
10 Land, Science, and Knowledge in Native America Paper 2 due
11 African - American Technoscientific Histories and Afrofuturist Projects  
12 Citizenship, Cyborgs, Model Minorities and Border Crossings  
13 Race in the Digital Age Paper 3 due

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