Allowed Mit to get lots of talented students from around the world Before 1924, lots of anxiety over European differences o Now you lump them all together under the heading of"white o Distributions are by census category These ideas are both new and reinventions of old categories We also see how racial categories can shift o South asians used to be seen as"Asian o Now, they are more often lumped together with"Arabs Anthropology still has a lot of investigating to do in terms of race as a social construction and the power relations it produces Work is being done in o Healthcare o Political resistance o Law enforcement Race in Anthropology Today o Medical anthropology o Boundary between biolog ical and social o Collection of healthcare stats o Distribution of healthcare o Social distinctions can become biological distinctions o Not genetic distinction Political mobilization around race o Forced drug companies to collect racial data on Make sure that medical studies included people of all races o Fear that racial stats will be used for exclusionary pu Big question for Anthropology Now that we ve argued that race is a social construction, how do you deal with racial inequality without acknowledging race as a valid form of classification?• Allowed MIT to get lots of talented students from around the world • Before 1924, lots of anxiety over European differences o Now you lump them all together under the heading of “white” o Distributions are by census category • These ideas are both new and reinventions of old categories • We also see how racial categories can shift o South Asians used to be seen as “Asian” o Now, they are more often lumped together with “Arabs” • Anthropology still has a lot of investigating to do in terms of race as a social construction and the power relations it produces • Work is being done in: o Healthcare o Political resistance o Law enforcement o Residence patterns Race in Anthropology Today o Medical anthropology o Boundary between biological and social o Collection of healthcare stats o Distribution of healthcare o Social distinctions can become biological distinctions o Not genetic distinction Political mobilization around race o Forced drug companies to collect racial data o Make sure that medical studies included people of all races o Fear that racial stats will be used for exclusionary purposes Big question for Anthropology: Now that we’ve argued that race is a social construction, how do you deal with racial inequality without acknowledging race as a valid form of classification?