Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and…
"Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism an…
The post-civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in gene…
This work explores how race as a category - reinforced by new discoveries in genetics - is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.