Race and Science

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
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