Tag: race scientists

Where did race come from?

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“How did the idea of race begin in America?”  The video provided below offers the answer.  It is resources like this that inform my understanding of race and its designation as socially constructed.  It is important to know and repeat again and again that race is not divinely inspired.  The father of race is not […]

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A Holocaust before Hitler

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This video documents the tragedies of the attempted genocide of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia during the Second Reich.  Through these historical records, it is my hope that we would acknowledge and accept the collective oppression that all people have endured and the crimes that we have committed against each other, as our sufferings are not […]

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The Story of Race

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“Race is so deeply imbedded in our lives it appears to be the natural order of things. We must challenge that notion with all of the power of our science and society.” ~Yolanda Moses, Anthropologist Once upon a time, there were no human races. How we talk about race is important to me.  Unfortunately, the […]

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