Explain what a social construct is. Explain how "race" is a social construct.
Your exam answers must be in an essay format with a minimum of 500 words not including bibliography. Your answer must use a minimum of three readings from the section "Biology as Ideology." You must properly cited your essay (which citation practice is up to the student.)
** Remember to look at the "How to Write an Essay" Handout so you are doing an essay correctly.
Required readings for the Biology as Ideology section (which you must use a minimum of three different readings in your essay.)
1) Stephen Jay Gould (1977) "Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism" In Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. W.W. Norton & Company: New York pp.251-259
2) Stephen Jay Gould (1994) "Curveball" The New Yorker (November 28): 139–149
3) Stephen Jay Gould (1995) "Ghosts of Bell Curves Past" Natural History 104 (2): 12-18
4) Audrey Smedley and Brian D. Smedley (2005) "Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race" American Psychologist 60(1):16-26
5) Lee D. Baker (1998) "Columbia University's Franz Boas: He Led the Undoing of Scientific Racism" The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 22: 89-96
6) "Geo-Racial Mapping" From Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats pp. 127-177
7) Kim TallBear (2013) "Racial Science, Blood, and DNA" In Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis pp. 31-66