**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

Authors Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman will discuss their new book -- Racism, Not Race: Answers To Frequently Asked Questions. These two distinguished scientists will tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Graves and Goodman will explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference. They demonstrate that the ideology of racism created races and show why the inequalities ascribed to race are in fact caused by racism. Joseph Graves is a professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina A&T State University. He is a fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His books include The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium and The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. Alan Goodman is a professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College and a former vice president for academic affairs. He is a past president of the American Anthropological Association and codirects its public education project on race. He is a coauthor of Race: Are We So Different?, among other books.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. This virtual event is a collaboration between the libraries of Ashland, Framingham, Lexington, Medway, Newton and Tewksbury.