...Emenaha Uchenna High school students are very seldomly, if at all, taught that race is a social rather than biological construct, and this pedagogical omission has led to biological essentialism. Biological essentialism is the belief that race can be used in predictable ways to determine intellect...

...John A. Mecham Human rights issues can be topics of conflict, resistance, and indifference; thus, these issues are seldom broached in traditional college STEM courses. In this article, I share process, content, and sources used to introduce college students to the biology of the singularity of race...

... of “wide race crosses,” equivalent to the F 2 generation of a dihybrid cross. He tried and failed to find data to support his arguments in a study of the mixed-race inhabitants of Jamaica. Davenport's analysis was deeply flawed, especially by the racist assumptions underlying this work. Although...

...Amelia R. Hubbard Race is a hot-button topic in American society, but one that needs to be addressed in the biological science curriculum. This paper examines how college students in a large introductory course came to understand race through the exploration of four key concepts about the nature...

...Jonathan Beckwith; Kostia Bergman; Michael Carson; Tobias Doerr; Lisa Geller; Robin Pierce; Sheldon Krimsky; Carol Martin; Marina Santiago; Amy Vashlishan Murray; Celestine Warren; Chad Zichterman Teaching the topic of genetics in relationship to ancestry and race generates many questions...

...Amelia R. Hubbard Race and racism are considered standard subject matter in introductory college courses in the social sciences, but remain relatively absent in biological science courses ( Donovan, 2015 ; Morning, 2011 ). Given a resurgence of biologically deterministic racial science (e.g., Risch...