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Race Unmasked

Name: Race Unmasked
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231168748
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Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century

Autor: Michael Yudell

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Editura: Columbia University Press

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Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an ide...

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Autor

Michael Yudell

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2014

Pagini

304

EAN

9780231168748

ISBN

0231168748

Enbook ID

04559152

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

562

Dimensiuni

164 x 239 x 24

Descriere completă

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. Through rigorous historical research, Race Unmasked reveals how genetics and related biological disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the work of some of the twentieth century's most notable scientists, the book elucidates the limitations of a racial worldview. This new work is a gripping history of science and scientists that throws the contours of our current and evolving understanding of human diversity into sharp relief.