"Race" is still sometimes used within forensic anthropology (when analyzing skeletal remains), biomedical research, and race-based medicine. Brace has criticized this, the practice of forensic anthropologists for using the controversial concept "race" out of convention when they in fact should be talking about regional ancestry. He argues that while forensic anthropologists can determine that a skeletal remain comes from a person with ancestors in a specific region of Africa, categorizing that skeletal as being "black" is a socially constructed category that is only meaningful in the particular context of the United States, and which is not itself scientifically valid. COUNT 5
QSN1 What type of anthropology is "race" sometimes still used within? ANS1 forensic QSN2 What term would Brace prefer forensic anthropologists use? ANS2 regional ancestry QSN3 What can forensic anthropologists determine about the ancestors of someone from their skeletal remains? ANS3 specific region QSN4 What does Brace feel the term "black" in meaningful in? ANS4 particular context QSN5 Why is it bad that a category is merely socially constructed? ANS5 is not itself scientifically valid