Kelley Curtis (SOC) wrote: > > 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 > [log in to unmask] > Applied Anthropology > University of South Florida, Tampa The recent (2/97) issue of Natural History has a small article on Race and Intelligence. Betty Brennan Taylor Studios, Inc. http//www.shout.net/~taylor