In personal reflection of professor Projit Bihari Mukharji’s presentation, I am thinking a lot about the cultural significance of ethnicity and race. Previously in anthropology courses, I have been fascinated and absorbed by the construct of race. The quote, “race is imagined, but not imaginary”, has always influenced my beliefs towards how race is discussed in our modern world. It took many years for me to understand how race is not a scientific method of separating the human population into separate boxes. Projit Bihari Mukharji’s talk was especially powerful because it combined my two intellectual passions: the science of genetics and cultural anthropology.
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