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Book Title
THe Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific...
ISBN
067466003X
EAN
9780674660038
Release Title
THe Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific...
Artist
Robert Wald Sussman
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
067466003X
ISBN-13
9780674660038
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038814791

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Myth of Race : the Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Anthropology / Physical, Anthropology / General, History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Science
Author
Robert Wald Sussman
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
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Not only is this book a significant contribution to the view of race and racism in traditional 'four-field' anthropology in the U.S., but it is also important to the understanding of global notions of contemporary racism...The Myth of Race encourages us to understand where stereotypes and misinformation fit in our consideration of whether and how notions of biological race remain pervasive in today's discourse and policy.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.8
Synopsis
Biological races do not exist--and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned "Aryans," as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization--policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas's new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why--when it comes to race--too many people still mistake bigotry for science., Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Sussman explains why--when it comes to race--too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
LC Classification Number
HT1521.S83 2016

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