Race: Are We So Different?

About Alan H. GoodmanJoseph L. JonesYolanda T. Moses

Alan H. Goodman is Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College and former Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. He has written extensively on human variation and the biological consequences of inequality and poverty and co-leads the RACE national public education project sponsored by the AAA and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation. Goodman is a former President of the AAA. Yolanda T. Moses is Professor of Anthropology and recent Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity Excellence and Equity at the University of California Riverside. A cultural anthropologist she has published extensively on issues of social inequality in complex societies and cultural diversity in higher education. She co-leads the RACE national education project and is a former President of the AAA. Joseph L. Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary. A biological anthropologist his work involves descendant community engagement and skeletal research on African diasporic biohistory and health. He has published on slavery and environmental lead exposure at the New York African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. Jones is former RACE project manager for the American Anthropological Association. Sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Based out of Washington DC the American Anthropological Association is a professional association for anthropologists working across the four major fields of anthropology – biological anthropology archaeology linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. With approximately 10000 members the AAA supports researchers higher education professionals students and individuals working in the public private and non-governmental sectors. The AAA publishes a portfolio of more than 20 journals stages annual research conferences and supports anthropologists at all stages of their careers through awards and fellowships career planning services and internship and summer field school programs.