Mixing Races From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

Name: Mixing Races From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
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ISBN: 9780801898136

ISBN-10: 0801898137

ISBN-13: 9780801898136

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paul Lawrence Farber

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This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s. In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion that it would produce biologically dysfunctional offspring. By the 1960s the scientific community roundly refuted this theory. Paul Lawrence Farber traces this revolutionary shift in scientific thought, explaining how developments in modern population biology, genetics, and anthropology proved that opposition to race mixing was a social prejudice…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.86" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English