The myth of race : (Record no. 36006)

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780674660038
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number	305.8 SU MY
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Authors	Sussman, Robert Wald
TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The myth of race :
Subtitle	the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea
Statement of responsibility, etc	Robert Wald Sussman
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publisher	Harvard University Press,
Date	c2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	ix, 374 p. :
Other Details	ill. ;
Size	24 cm.
CONTENTS
Contents	Early racism in western Europe -- The birth of eugenics -- The merging of polygenic and eugenics -- Eugenics and the Nazis -- The antidote: Boas and the anthropological concept of culture -- Physical anthropology in the early twentieth century -- The downfall of eugenics -- The beginnings of modern scientific racism -- The Pioneer Fund, 1970s-1990s -- The Pioneer Fund in the twenty-first century -- Modern racism and anti-immigration policies.
SUMMARY
Summary	Biological races do not exist -- and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his compelling 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 compelling 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 individual 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.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading	Race
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading	Racism
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				University of Wollongong in Dubai	University of Wollongong in Dubai	Main Collection	2019-05-30	AMAUK	1	1	305.8 SU MY	T0062454	2020-02-27	2020-01-30	2019-05-17	REGULAR	June2019

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