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National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.
Sommario
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Introduction
Introduction: Political Identities and Transnational Science
Richard McMahon
1. Transnational Network, Transnational Narratives: Scientific Race Classifications and National Identities
Richard McMahon
2. The Destiny of Races “Not Yet Called to Civilization”: Giustiniano Nicolucci’s Critique of American Polygenism and Defense of Liberal Racism
Maria Sophia Quine
3. A Matter of Place, Space, and People: Cracow Anthropology, 1870–1920
Maria Rhode
4. Yet Another Greek Tragedy? Physical Anthropology and the Construction of National Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ageliki Lefkaditou
5. Jews between Volk and Rasse
Amos Morris-Reich
6. Classifying Hybridity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Imperial Anthropology
Marina Mogilner
7. Physical Anthropology in Colonial Korea: Science and Colonial Order, 1916–40
Arnaud Nanta
8. Racial Anthropology on the Eastern Front, 1912 to the Mid-1920s
Maciej Górny
9. Racial Politics as a Multiethnic Pavilion: Yugoslavs, Dinarics, and the Search for a Synthetic Identity in the 1920s and 1930s
Rory Yeomans
Conclusion: From National Races to National Genomes
Catherine Nash
Contributors
Index
Info autore
Richard McMahon is a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839–1939.
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National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the “national races” constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.
