Redefining Race: The Potential Demise of a Concept in Physical Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]

Littlefield, Alice; Lieberman, Leonard; Reynolds, Larry T.; Azevêdo, Eliane S.; Beals, Kenneth L.; Brace, C. Loring; Garn, Stanley M.; Gloor, Peter A.; Jensen, Arthur R.; Kelso, Jack; Łaska-Mierzejewska, Teresa; Livingstone, Frank B.; Montagu, Ashley; Rose, Steven; Trevathan, Wenda R.; Wolfe, Linda D.

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“…Racial hypotheses are encumbered, however, by at least two extraordinarily contentious scientific issues: (i) whether or not "race" possesses adequate validity as a scientific construct to reasonably allow genetic hypotheses, and (ii) whether or not complex, phenotypic social traits are too polygenically interactive with culture to permit adequate, independent specification of genetic and cultural effects on race differences. For discussions of the logical, methodological, and moral issues in speci~ing the construct of race, and in testing racial hypotheses, see Gould (1981), Lerner (1992), Lewontin et al (1984), Littlefield et al (1982, Shipman (1994), and Yee et al (1993).…”

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Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: Variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students

1996

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Seven hundred and two (346 non-Asian, 356 Asian) undergraduate volunteers were assessed in a confidential laboratory setting on levels of interpersonal sexual behavior (e.g., petting, intercourse), intrapersonal sexual behavior (e.g., fantasy, masturbation), and sociosexual restrictiveness (e.g., lifetime number of partners, number of "one-night stands"). The purpose was to examine possible differences in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian Canadian university students and to determine the association between North American residency and the sexual behavior of Asians. The role of gender on sexual behavior both across and within ethnic groups was also examined. Statistical analyses revealed that Asian students were significantly more conservative than non-Asian students on all measures of interpersonal sexual behavior and sociosexual restrictiveness. Significant differences were also noted between Asian and non-Asian students on most measures of intrapersonal sexual behavior. With the exception of two fantasy items, length of residency in Canada was unrelated to interpersonal sexual behavior, intrapersonal sexual behavior, or sociosexual restrictiveness among Asians. Although gender differences were substantial for intrapersonal sexual behaviors such as fantasy and masturbation, no significant gender differences were found for measures of interpersonal sexual experience, with the exception of reported number of one-night stands.

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Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: Variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students

1996

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“…36 -39 Even use of the race concept in textbooks is declining. 39 Only 50% of physical anthropologists and 31% of cultural anthropologists accept the validity of biological races in Homo sapiens. 40 There are many reasons for the decline in acceptance of race as a means of understanding human variation.…”

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Apportionment of racial diversity: A review

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“…1 Classi® cation of the human population by physical characteristics is an easy and attractive classi® cation system for most people, yet it is now accepted among biologists, that the overall genetic differences between racial groups are very minute 2 such that most human genetic variation occurs between individual people within a racial group as opposed to between racial groups. 3 Despite this`new' understanding of an old concept, medical researchers continue to categorize the human species by race, search for statistically signi® cant differences between racial groups, and, based on their ® ndings, make broad generalizations of their conclusions to all members of a`racial' group.…”

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Using Ethnicity as a Classification Variable in Health Research: Perpetuating the myth of biological determinism, serving socio-political agendas, or making valuable contributions to medical sciences?

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1999

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There is a need for a valid way to classify the human species consistently and reliably, be it to highlight similarities between human populations such as intelligence or physical capacity, to dispel myths about group differences, or to discover 'novel' risk factors for diseases. In contrast to racial divisions, which are usually based on differences in skin colour and physical features, ethnicity is a complex concept which has both socio-cultural and biological components. However, because of the relative vagueness of the term, the interpretation of the 'Ethnicity' construct is not simple, and its definition is often unique to the research project at hand. Therefore conducting ethnicity-research necessitates being aware of the differences between the concept of ethnicity and race, acknowledgement of the complexity of the ethnicity construct, and requires that a clear definition of the use of this term be made explicit by the researcher.

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Redefining Race: The Potential Demise of a Concept in Physical Anthropology [and Comments and Reply]

Cited by 111 publications

References 14 publications

Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: Variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students

Ethnic and gender differences in sexuality: Variations in sexual behavior between Asian and non-Asian university students

Apportionment of racial diversity: A review

Using Ethnicity as a Classification Variable in Health Research: Perpetuating the myth of biological determinism, serving socio-political agendas, or making valuable contributions to medical sciences?

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