The State of Science
This publication is the culmination of many years of research by forensic anthropologist Peter Conti. After doing many years of research in forensics, he has realized the many delicate errors in traditional anthropology that only become apparant in double-blind studies of skull classification and the reductionist approach to racial classification, (Meier, pp. 160) These methods of analysis have lead him to question some of the foundations of his field and hypothesize what he believes to be more scientific racial classifications. In his personal life, he is happily married with full-grown children. When he was young, he emmigrated from his natale solum, Italy, to travel abroad and conduct scientific research. He is an Italian so he identifies[1] his racial type to be a Caucasoid and Mongolo-Negroid mixture.[2]
Marching onward into the 21st century, we have come to the point where we must question the common knowledge of our rhetorical forefathers. The Great Generation fought the Nazis on the European battlefield. They came home with a well-deserved disgust for the idea of "race". For these heroes, "race" seemed to be the pre-occupation of the Axis powers. It did not seem to be the subject of pleasent conversation, so it was abandoned in the natural sciences, (Gayre, pp. 293). As science progressed, physical anthropology fell behind. The scientific study of race became a vilified taboo and insistence on the existence of race was suspect, (Carpenter, pp.15). Today, science has advanced and overturned outdated racial groups. Out of the racialist frame work of early America, a new generation of anthropologists have confirmed scientific racial groups. These groups throw all previous classifications into the refuge of history.
Caucasoid Caucasian Negroid Mongoloid
Caucasoid Caucasian Negroid MongoloidWith new advancements in science and a bold new generation ready to press forward to right the wrongs of the past, we have uncovered new scientific racial groups. These new racial groups reject the distinct measurements previously used to classify race, since these frequently lead to discordant diagnosis among different anthropologists. Furthermore, old papers are riddled with derogatory stereotypes which are obviously false and boardering on racism. Current anthropological thought rejects many older "stereotypical" classifications and goes back to the foundations of science to objectively classify races with a mathematical certitude.
Many anthropologists disagree with the concept of race, (Warner, pp. 7), but the published statistics over this issue are horribly misleading. There are various factors affecting the state of race today. Amidst the effort to define statutory social groups and contentious identity disputes, (Aske, par. 12), many in the anthropological field seem reluctant to define race out of fear of igniting the ire of these vested interests. Moreover, the anthropological community has its norms and values which often run contrary to their finding in the natural sciences. If any anthropologist claims that race is confirmed, they are instantly ostracized by their colleagues, (Hammonds, par. 2)[3]. With all these outside forces whose raison d'etre is cotingent upon the continuation of older racial classifications based on stereotypes, science has been cast aside. This ground-breaking anthropological publication tries objectively to define racial groups with the graces of unadulterated scientific research.
Foot Notes
[1] This observance is not to mean that self-identity has any bearing on the underlying formological race which stays permanently fixed.
[2] In my expert opinion, I am a melding Mongolo-Negroid and Caucasoid formological components, but I would have to actually analyse my remains to know for sure. This was the standard modus agendi for racial classification when I worked in the field. Since I would have to be dead to see my skull, I will never have the opportunity to know my true formological race(s).
[3] Since I am retired, I don't believe that this applies to me anymore. I found an undeniable utility in the race concept when I was still doing fieldwork.
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