Michael Yudell (Arizona State University)

Race Unmasked

Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Race Unmasked revisits the origins of widespread beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age. Michael Yudell reveals how genetics and related disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism.

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Produktdetails

• Race, Inequality, and Health
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780231168755
• ISBN-10: 0231168756
• Artikelnr.: 50201718

Autorenporträt

Michael Yudell. Foreword by J. Craig Venter

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by J. Craig Venter
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Eugenic Foundation
2. Charles Davenport and the Biology of Blackness
3. Eugenics in the Public's Eye
4. The National Research Council and the Scientific Study of Race
5. Coloring Race Difference
6. Biology and the Problem of the Color Line
7. Race and the Evolutionary Synthesis
8. Consolidating the Race Concept in Biology
9. Challenges to the Race Concept
10. Naturalizing Racism: The Controversy Over Sociobiology
11. Race in the Genomic Age
Epilogue: Dobzhansky's Paradox and the Future of Racial Research
Notes
Bibliography
Index