Race Unmasked - Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. Race Unmasked revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age.

Table des matières

Foreword by J. Craig VenterAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Eugenic Foundation2. Charles Davenport and the Biology of Blackness3. Eugenics in the Public's Eye4. The National Research Council and the Scientific Study of Race5. Coloring Race Difference6. Biology and the Problem of the Color Line7. Race and the Evolutionary Synthesis8. Consolidating the Race Concept in Biology9. Challenges to the Race Concept10. Naturalizing Racism: The Controversy Over Sociobiology11. Race in the Genomic AgeEpilogue: Dobzhansky's Paradox and the Future of Racial ResearchNotesBibliographyIndex

A propos de l'auteur

Michael Yudell is an associate professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health, where he directs the Program in Public Health Ethics and History. He is author of the blog The Public's Health for the Philadelphia Inquirer and his prior books include Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future and The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling the Unity of Life. He is currently writing a history of autism spectrum disorders.

Résumé

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.

Commentaire

"How can a concept that has been so debunked as a biological reality keep rising from the dead? Race Unmasked helps answer this by illustrating the troubling story of the sustained, strained, and stained history of the concept of race in scientific thought and practice." - David Rosner, Columbia University

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael Yudell, Michael (Arizona State University) Yudell, Michael (Drexel University School of Publi Yudell, Michael (Drexel University School of Public Health) Yudell, Yudell Michael
• Collaboration: J. Craig Venter (Préface)
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9780231168748
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16874-8
• Pages: 304
• Thème: Race, Inequality, and Health
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Genetics (non-medical)