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"Race" Is a Four-Letter Word The Genesis of the Concept

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ISBN-10: 0195173511

ISBN-13: 9780195173512

Edition: 2005

Authors: C. Loring Brace

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This text is designed to be used as a supplementary text for any course in which the instructor wants to explore the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and how "race" grew to become accepted as something that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. The first chapter lays out the reasons why the concept is biologically indefensible, and the remainder of the book examines the course of events that created thatconcept; the journey through time goes from Herodotus through Marco Polo, the Renaissance and the role of the New World, on up to the American Civil War, the curious results of the alliance switch in World War I, Arthur…    
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Book details

List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Preface:
Introduction:
The Biology of Human Variation
Background of a Belief
Adaptive Traits: Clines
The Perception Of Human Differences In The Past
What Shall We Call "Them?"
The Peasant Perspective
Antiquity
Renaissance
Enlightenment: The "Age of Reason"
Science and The Greatness of God
The Limits of Reason
Linnaeus and Classification
Buffon and Continuity
Camper and the Facial Angle
Assessing the Meaning of Human Differences
One Origin Or Many?
The Roots of "Polygenism"
Monogenism
Anthropology In The Enlightenment
Blumenbach and "Degeneration"
The Scottish Enlightenment Comes to America
"Race" From the Perspective of the American Enlightenment
The Triumph of Feeling Over Reason
Romanticism
Phrenology
The Founding Of The American School Of Anthropology
The Postcolonial United States of America
Morton and the American Origin of Biological Anthropology
Passing The Torch
Archetypical American
The Demise Of Monogenism And The Rise Of Polygenism
The Last Monogenist
The Voice of American Racialism
Scotland
France
Toward A War Over Slavery And Afterward
"Race" and Politics
War and Its Aftermath
The French Connection
Paul Broca and the Professionalization of Biological Anthropology
The Legacy Of The American School In America
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906)
The First World War
The French Connection and the Concept of "Race"
William Z. Ripley and the Magic Three
Madison GrantLothrop Stoddard
The Ethos Of Eugenics
Eugenics
Eugenics Exported to America
Germany"Race" and Eugenics Applied to the Shaping of America
Henry Ford And The Ethos Of The Holocaust
The Anti-Semitism of Henry Ford
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Outlook Of The "Bigot Brigade"
"Race" and "Intelligence"
Statistical Theology and the Worship of Sir Cyril Burt: "Scientific" Fraud
The Galtonian Legacy In America
World War I"Intelligence" and Immigration
Lewis Terman and Genetic Predestination
Walter Lippmann Versus the Termanites
"Race" In Biological Anthropology
Ales Hrdlicka and the Smithsonian: Organizing the Profession
Academia and the Patterns of Thought in Biological Anthropology: Sir Arthur Keith
Keith's Influence on America: Earnest Albert Hooton
Carleton Coon on "Race"
Science and Society on "Race" After World War II
The Legacy of the Pioneer Fund
The Promotion of "Scientific" Racism
Jensenism
The Bell Curve
Apostle of Apartheid
Richard Lynn
"Otherism"
Afterthoughts
Sources Cited
Index