Agustin Fuentes, "What Race Is, and What It Is Not"

In “What Race Is, and What It Is Not,” Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, will guide attendees through their bodies, culture, and history to debunk the myths of race, demonstrate the realities of racism, and illustrate that how someone thinks about, talks about, and acts on issues of race matters.

Professor Fuentes’ current research and teaching interests include the roles of cooperation, peace, and aggression in human evolution, race and racism, sex and gender differences and similarities, ethnoprimatology, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human nature(s).  Fuentes’ recent books include “Evolution of Human Behavior” (Oxford University Press), “Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections” (McGraw-Hill), “Monkeys on the Edge” (co-edited, Oxford University Press), “Health, Risk and Adversity” (co-edited, Berghahn Press), and the forthcoming “Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature” (UC Press).