Dear List Members (Anthro-types primarily),

        I would like to know if there have been any recent exhibits
dealing with the concept of race?  I am enrolled in a Museum Methods class
this semester and plan to do an exhibit on race for our department's small
Anthropology Exhibit Gallery.  I would like some ideas from the list on
effective ways to present this difficult subject.  Knowing how it has been
handled would be of interest and use to me.  In particular, any thoughts
on objects that I could acquire to illustrate important concepts are
especially welcome.

Some guiding questions (tentative):
Race: biological reality or social construct?  How is race determined?  By
whom?  For what purpose?  What value does the concept have, if any?

"Objects" can include: newspaper clippings (e.g., on controversial medical
issues, such as bone marrow donors, and local racial riots that occurred
here recently); pages from old anthropology textbooks; graphics of
geographic distributions of genetic traits (e.g., maps); casts of relevant
skeletal materials (i.e., skulls); photographs, etc...

I should mention,too, that this exhibit will occupy only one display
case.  Comments and information are appreciated. Thanks in
advance!

Kelley Curtis
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Applied Anthropology
University of South Florida, Tampa