Race: Science's Last Taboo

Can you define race?

We talk about ‘racism’ but do we really understand what ‘race’ means?

The Oxford English Dictionary gives 5 different definitions for the word and points out that some believe its usage should be avoided altogether, while The United Nations issued a Statement On Race affirming that there was only one race, the human race.

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It's difficult to define race

That's why we created this season of programming, which looks at the history and consequences of scientific racism, challenges bad science and debunks the myth that science can support notions of racial hierarchy.