ABSTRACT
Academic discussions about race generate a wide range of opinions. Some voices emphatically argue that the timeworn construct is vacuous, inaccurate, obsolete, and laden with prejudicial overtones. Other voices are more pedantic, reasoned, and reflective where the emphasis is placed on the scientific value of the construct for classifying hominids. And other voices are dangerously self-centered, ethnocentric, and lacking in any logical and substantive evidence whatsoever. Indeed,
the esteemed cultural anthropologist Franz Boas was emphatic in his stance on the use of the construct because he considered it a myth.
