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Race and Science
Art: Didier Descouens, 1655 - Frontispiece of Museum Wormiani Historia, Taken on… · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Stefan Helmreich
- Term
- Spring 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 13 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.240 Race and Science, Spring 2004, Prof. Stefan Helmreich — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
- Crash Course in the Category of Race as Biological Phantom and Social Reality Download
- Blood, Sex, and Skeletons: Colonialism, Climatic Determinism, Cranial Capacity, and the Rise of Monogenist and Polygenist Scientific Racism Download
- Germ Plasm: American and British Eugenics Download
- Skin Color, Bodily Form: Laws of Science and Laws of the Land in the Context of Immigration, Assimilation and Early 20th-Century American Anthropology Download
- Health and Hygiene: Latin American Lamarckism, Nazi German Darwinism Download
- From Population to Genome: Race after World War Two Download
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Crash Course in the Category of Race as Biological Phantom and Social Reality
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Lecture 3: Blood, Sex, and Skeletons: Colonialism, Climatic Determinism, Cranial Capacity, and the Rise of Monogenist and Polygenist Scientific Racism
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Lecture 4: Germ Plasm: American and British Eugenics
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Lecture 5: Skin Color, Bodily Form: Laws of Science and Laws of the Land in the Context of Immigration, Assimilation and Early 20th-Century American Anthropology
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Lecture 6: Health and Hygiene: Latin American Lamarckism, Nazi German Darwinism
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Lecture 7: From Population to Genome: Race after World War Two
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Lecture 8: Race and Medicine
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Lecture 9: Alternative Histories and Futures for the Racial Economy of Science
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Lecture 10: Land, Science, and Knowledge in Native America
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Lecture 11: African - American Technoscientific Histories and Afrofuturist Projects
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Lecture 12: Citizenship, Cyborgs, Model Minorities and Border Crossings
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Lecture 13: Race in the Digital Age
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Stefan Helmreich, 21A.240 Race and Science, Spring 2004.
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