ELAC Human Variation Fallacies and Racism Questions

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is for you to illustrate the value of anthropological ideas about race in helping to address racism in our society and explain how assumptions about race contribute to racism in our society.

Knowledge & Skills

This assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in anthropology:

racism

anthropological principles and concepts about human variation and race

You will practice the following skills as you complete this assignment:

apply anthropological ideas about human biological variation and race to address racism in our society

• explain the value of anthropology in solving real world problems 
• Tasks

Please type your response in a word processing software (e.g., MS Word). Your response must be:

single-spaced

• 12 point Times New Roman font with 1 inch margins all around (top, bottom, left, right)

no longer than 1 page

• Instructions:

Step 1: Look at the images below.

Step 2: Select ONE of the images.

Step 3: Apply the information you have learned about anthropological perspectives on human variation to *explain why* the comment in the image is a fallacy/misunderstanding of human variation. Is the comment racist? Why/why not?

Step 4: *Explain how* the comment in the image contributes to racism in our society.

• Step 5: Upload your assignment to Canvas.
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