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Unpack the ambiguities around race, skin color, and biology. After reviewing the history of Social Darwinism, you’ll see how Franz Boas and other 20th century anthropologists shifted our understanding of race to show how it is a cultural construct, independent of biology and geography.
00:00 Is There Truly Only One Race—the Human Race?
02:08 Charles Orser: How Archaeologists Confuse Race
03:21 How Social Darwinism Spread
06:53 "White Man's Burden" and Imperialism
10:25 Eugenics Creed Leads to Sterilization
12:13 Darwin's Cousin Francis Galton Champions Eugenics
13:34 Oliver Wendell Holmes Endorses Eugenics
14:11 How Did We Get Past Social Darwinism?
15:47 Franz Boas Moves Beyond Biological Determinism
17:23 Defining Cultural Relativity
18:54 Why Does the Myth of Multiple Human Races Persist?
22:34 Understanding Health Inequalities
26:12 US Census Bureau Clarifies Use of Racial Categories
27:04 How Our Origins Inform Our Understanding of Race
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