Comments on: Race and human variation website is up

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » The AAA Race and Human Variation website is up

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:31:00 +0000

[…] We’ve mentioned this site before but now the AAA’s Race and Human Variation website is fully armed and operational, featuring a blog as well as many other spiffy features. It is hard to tell who exactly the people blogging are (although you can read all about their copyright of the material on the site). The site is geared to non-academics, and has great interactive features like quizzes, interactive timelines, and games. It also has a lot of resources for educators, including downloadable papers and an annotated bibliography (PDF link). It looks like the site is powered by Community Server. I’m excited by the website and will certainly find ways to integrate it into my teaching. The Who Is White flash quiz could certainly be paired with All Look Same. […]

By: Grad Student

Grad Student — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:04:11 +0000

I’m glad something like this has been made. As a teaching assistant, race is one of the issues in discussions sections which students have trouble understanding. Even when presented with evidence that “race” is cultural (e.g. different categories outside of the U.S., genetic evidence, etc.). It’s great to have place that I can send students to if they want more information.

However, I do think that as is the site would be difficult for students to jump into as freshman (or even for “lay people” to view) as is. While the selection of articles is good. Some of them are to “academicy” (for lack of an available word in English). This is especially true of the articles about genetics. Hopefully the section for teachers and students will be able to present this information in an easier to digest form for non-academics.