Race and Intelligence

1) What is race?
    a. Biological Evolution is a bush, not a ladder

    b. Why the unique encephalization quotient of humans?

    c. When did the human race arise?

    d. Humans are 99.99% genetically identical
 
 

2) What is racism?
    a. Claims for racial brain differences have turned out to be pseudoscience

b. Just as the ladder is used in racist biological determinism, it is used in ethnocentric cultural primitivism.
Need to produce anti-racist portraits of indigenous, vernacular, and non-western state knowledge systems.
 

3) What are some examples of anti-racist science, math and engineering?

    a. The biology lesson you just received

    b. Culturally-situated design

    c. Patent protection for indigenous knowledge systems

    d. Appropriating Technology

     e.Afro-Futurism
 


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