Abstract
Over the last century, anthropological discourse about race changed dramatically. Once a core concept in anthropology, it is now widely accepted as the “myth” coined by Ashley Montagu to denote that race is a social construction with no basis in biology. The social constructivist view of race was long in the making in American anthropology. Typological thinking about human variation persists in science and society and race continues to be important to biological anthropologists in many ways. This chapter explores three of them. First, the race concept is not dead. Second, racial thinking may still influence researchers' understanding of human variation, population relationships, and human evolution. Finally, while social races are not genealogical entities, they have biological dimensions. The race concept is currently alive and well in the general public, providing fodder for neo-fascists globally, but it has also persisted in biological anthropology until very recently.
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