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Physical Anthropology as Rooted in Race Science | Dr. Elizabeth DiGangi

For inquiries and comments on this video, please send an email to Dr. Jon Bethard: jbethard@usf.edu In this clip, Dr. DiGangi discusses how physical anthropology is rooted in the history of race science. Specifically racial classification of groups. Transcript: DiGangi: physical anthropology was developed as race science it was developed specifically to classify people into groups based on um so-called racial characteristics and so that's why you might notice uh dr pony since you are a linguistic anthropologist the the the subtlety when when we talk about or when uh dr bether and i talk about physical anthropology versus biological anthropology so physical anthropology we're referring to yesterday when um race science was what physical anthropology was about biological anthropology we're referring to uh the discipline that that we're a part of today but there were um several scholars who were engaged in um uh trying to say hi i've got problems with this idea that we can just put people into groups and and those characteristics are going to be definitive of um you know people from africa people from europe people from asia indigenous people and and some of those people um included um the first african-american um physical anthropologist w monty cobb who wrote about um famous african-american track athletes in in the 1930s um one of whom incidentally and coincidentally and amazingly um was my grandfather which is really really just when when i read that paper and opened it and saw his photograph it was it was a really emotional moment for me but he talks in that paper about um because at the time newspapers and others were saying wow there's got to be something special about the the negro athlete that that these athletes are doing so exceptionally well there's got to be some anatomical you know difference between you know the negro athlete and and the white athlete and so he was one of the first to say i i kind of have you know a slight a slight problem with this um franz boaz was another anthropologist who was engaged in saying you know i i'm not so sure about this about this biological race idea and there certainly were others ashley montagu um who wrote a book called man's most dangerous myth so there were a number of anthropologists in in the early sort of early to mid 20th century saying this isn't okay you know i i've got some real problems with this with this concept um and then in um the the 1970s there was a paper by um richard lewanton which came out which looked at um human variation and and specifically said there's more variation within groups than there is between groups and so that was really um one of the starting points there were others but that was one of the starting points for um physical anthropologists to start to say okay now now we're starting to have some evidence that um this concept is really problematic and as um dr beathard mentioned it was really in in the 1990s in physical anthropology when um more people uh started to get on board um with uh with the debunking of the concept um although as as he mentioned you know um forensic anthropologists still held on to it and and there were you know a number of or in particular two famous papers that say well yes there is no biological race but at the same time you know we are really good at identifying them and and i think that was probably part um one of your second questions um you know what what are some of the mistakes that we can make and and maybe and i'm not sure if this was exactly your question you know why why is it that that we can can do this and and i'm not sure that i i want to go into the the the details of of why it is that that we are able to do it but maybe um or and i want to couch that as well um because because i'm not so sure that that we can do it that well