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Racial Economy of Science Toward a Democratic Future

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ISBN-10: 0253208106

ISBN-13: 9780253208101

Edition: 1993

Authors: Sandra Harding

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"Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely. Darlene Clark HineFueled by the declining legitimacy of Western authority and by critiques of Eurocentrism, a number of widely acclaimed analyses of the sciences have recently appeared. Sandra Harding draws from this body of scholarship to assemble an anthology of classic essays by Third World and Western thinkers who link the sciences to local, national, and international projects for…    
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is author of Whose Science: Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives and The Science Question in Feminism, and editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues.

Preface
Introduction: Eurocentric Scientific Illiteracy--A Challenge for the World Community
Early Non-Western Scientific Traditions
Poverties and Triumphs of the Chinese Scientific Tradition
Black Athena: Hostilities to Egypt in the Eighteenth Century
Early Andean Experimental Agriculture
Science Constructs ORace
OAmerican Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin: Blacks and Indians as Separate, Inferior Species
Racial Classifications: Popular and Scientific
The Study of Race
On the Nonexistence of Human Races
IQ: The Rank Ordering of the World
The Health of Black Folk: Disease, Class, and Ideology in Science
Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism
Who Gets to Do Science?
Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True Womanhood
Co-Laborer-in the Work of the Lord: Nineteenth-century Black Women Physicians
Ernest Everett Just: The role of Foundation Support for Black Scientists 1920-1929
Never Meant to Survive: A Black Woman's Journey--An Interview with Evelynn Hammonds
Increasing the Participation of Black Women in Science and Technology
Without More Minorities, Women, Disabled, U.S. Scientific Failure Certain, Fed Study Says
Modern Science and the Periphery: The Characteristics of Dependent Knowledge
Science's Technologies and Applications
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: "A Moral Astigmatism"
Calling the Shots? The International Politics of Depo-Provera
Colonialism and the Evolution of Masculinist Forestry
Applied Biology in the Third World: The Struggle for Revolutionary Science
Environmental Racism
Objectivity, Method, and Nature: Value Neutral?
Methods and Values in Science
National Academy of Sciences
Nazi Medicine and the Politics of Knowledge
Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science
The Bio-politics of a Multicultural Field
Cultural Differences in High-Energy Physics: Contrasts between Japan and the United States
The "Relevance" of Anthropology to Colonialism and Imperialism
The Future: Toward a Democratic Strategy For World Sciences
Science and Democracy: A Fundamental Correlation
People's Science
Science and Black People
Editorial, The Black Scholar
Science, Technology and Black Community Development
Towards a Democratic Strategy for Science: The New Politics of Science
Modern Science in Crisis
A Third World Response
Third World Network
Name Index