Chapter 9 Links and Further Reading

  1. Understanding Race (AAA) (http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html)

This project seeks to draw on the multiple tools and findings of anthropology—sophistication in historical research, biological analysis, and ethnographic study of lived experience—to explain differences among people and “reveal the reality—and unreality—of race.”

  1. Anthropomics (http://anthropomics2.blogspot.com)

Anthropomics is the personal blog of Jonathan Marks, a biological anthropologist who works at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. Marks primarily blogs about evolutionary theory, the sociocultural context of genetic research, and the history of scientific racism.

  1. Nina Jablonski “Society and Skin” (http://blog.ted.com/2009/07/20/qa_with_nina_ja/)

This question and answer session with anthropologist Nina Jablonski covers the roles of natural selection and ultraviolet radiation in human skin color.   

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