Institute for Historical Biology and Department of Anthropology, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021 Jun;175(2):316-325. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24208. Epub 2020 Dec 28.
The mainstream of American physical anthropology began as racist and eugenical science that defended slavery, restricted "non-Nordic" immigration, and justified Jim Crow segregation. After World War II, the field became more anti-racial than anti-racist. It has continued as a study of natural influences on human variation and thus continues to evade the social histories of inequitable biological variation. Also reflecting its occupancy of white space, biological anthropology continues to deny its own racist history and marginalizes the contributions of Blacks. Critical disciplinary history and a shift toward biocultural studies might begin an anti-racist human biology.
美国体质人类学的主流始于种族主义和优生学科学，该科学为奴隶制辩护，限制“非北欧”移民，并为吉姆·克劳（Jim Crow）种族隔离制度辩护。第二次世界大战后，该领域变得比反种族主义更反种族。它一直是对人类变异的自然影响的研究，因此继续回避不平等的生物变异的社会历史。同样反映出其占据白人空间的情况，生物人类学继续否认其自身的种族主义历史，并使黑人的贡献边缘化。批判性的学科历史和向生物文化研究的转变可能会开创反种族主义的人类生物学。
