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What is Speaking of Race?
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Listen to this podcast to understand what we're attempting to accomplish with the Speaking of Race podcast.
How did race become such a flash point in modern society, and why does it remain contentious in our genomic age?

In this first-of-its-kind trans-disciplinary podcast, biological anthropologist Jim Bindon joins with cultural anthropologist Lesley Jo Weaver and historian of science Erik L. Peterson to explore our species' centuries long debates over how to define biological and behavioral difference, and why it continues to matter today.
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  • ​​Jim Bindon is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama. He created and taught a course on race at UA.
  • Erik Peterson is an assistant professor of the history of science at the University of Alabama. He publishes and teaches about the historical relationship between race and science in the United States and abroad.
  • Jo Weaver is an assistant professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon. She taught the race course at UA and now is spreading the news in Eugene!
​A recent book review by the team: Weaver, L. J., Peterson, E. L., & Bindon, J. R. Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics, edited by Kazuko Suzuki and Diego A. Von Vacano, Oxford University Press, 2018, 302 pp. American Journal of Human Biology, e23207.