What Race is, and What it is Not: How Do We Know and Why Does it Matter?

Agustin Fuentes, a physical anthropologist from the University of Notre Dame, will present two lectures, one on race and another on war, peace and human nature, Wednesday and Thursday, April 29 and 30, at Linfield. "What Race is, and What it is Not: How Do We Know and Why Does it Matter?" will be Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall. This talk will cover the biology, history and reality of race, racism and inequality in the U.S. and provide a toolkit to move forward. Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Notre Dame, examines human evolution from several perspectives, and his research sheds light on some of the most common misconceptions about human nature, specifically in the areas of race, sex and aggression. He is the author of "Evolution of Human Behavior" and "Health, Risk and Adversity." He has a bachelor's in zoology and anthropology, and master's and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature." His articles have been published in Cultural Anthropology and the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. The lectures are sponsored by the Linfield College Department of Sociology/Anthropology and PLACE. For more information, contact Hillary Crane, ext. 2286, hcrane@linfield.edu. Subject: PLACE Lectures Run Length: 01:02 Author: Agustin Fuentes Publisher: Linfield College Copyright: 2015