Book description
Perspectives on race today
Featuring new and engaging essays by noted anthropologists and
illustrated with full color photos, RACE: Are We So Different?
is an accessible and fascinating look at the idea of race,
demonstrating how current scientific understanding is often
inconsistent with popular notions of race. Taken from the popular
national public education project and museum exhibition, it explores
the contemporary experience of race and racism in the United States
and the often-invisible ways race and racism have influenced laws,
customs, and social institutions.
Alan H. Goodman is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean
of Faculty at Hampshire College. A biological anthropologist who has
written extensively on human variation and the biological consequences
of inequality and poverty, he co-leads the national public education
project sponsored by the AAA and funded by NSF and the Ford
Foundation. Goodman is a past President of the AAA.
Yolanda T. Moses is Professor of Anthropology, Associate Vice
Chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity at the University of
California, Riverside. A cultural anthropologist, she has published
extensively on issues of social inequality in complex societies and
cultural diversity in higher education in the United States, India,
and South Africa. She chaired the National Advisory Committee composed
of distinguished scholars and curators that designed the original
exhibit and website. She co-leads the national public education
project sponsored by the AAA and funded by NSF and the Ford
Foundation. Moses is past President of the AAA.
Joseph L. Jones is former RACE project manager for the American
Anthropological Association. He also has written extensively on race
and the stresses of enslavement. He is finishing his dissertation from
University of Massachusetts Amherst on “The Political Ecology of Early
Childhood Lead Exposure for Enslaved Africans from the New York
African Burial Ground.”
Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Founded in 1902, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is the
world's largest professional organization of scholars and practitioners
in the field of anthropology. With over 11 thousand members, the
Arlington, Virginia-based association includes archaeologists, cultural
anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguists, and applied
anthropologists from around the world. AAA publishes 22 peer-reviewed
scholarly journals and conducts the largest annual meeting of
anthropologists in the world.
