In early western science, people thought that skin color signified not only where you were from, but what you were able to do, what your intelligence was like, what your moral fiber was like, and what your capacity for civilization was like. Our sterotypes of the nature of races are rooted in these very old definitions.
Click above to listen to part 3 of Race and COVID, featuring Nina Jablonski, Anthropologist, paleobiologist at Pennsylvania State University and author of, “Skin: A Natural History,” and “Living Color: the Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color.”
Race and COVID:
Part 1: Marcella Nunez Smith / Racial Disparity
Part 2: Utibe Essien / Racial Data
Part 3: Nina Jablonski / Skin Color
Part 4: Robert Sapolsky / Us vs. Them
Part 5: Harold Frazier / COVID checkpoint
