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The Resource Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction, John P. Jackson, Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman

Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction, John P. Jackson, Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman

Label
Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction
Title
Race, racism, and science
Title remainder
social impact and interaction
Statement of responsibility
John P. Jackson, Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1961-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Jackson, John P.
Dewey number
305.8
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HT1521
LC item number
.J33 2006
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1966-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Weidman, Nadine M.
Series statement
Science and society series
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Race
  • Race awareness
  • Racism
  • Social evolution
  • Human evolution
  • Race discrimination
  • Human evolution
  • Race
  • Race awareness
  • Race discrimination
  • Racism
  • Social evolution
Label
Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction, John P. Jackson, Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2004, in series: Science and society
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 1. The origins of racial science, antiquity-1800 -- Was there race in antiquity? -- The curse of Ham and medieval racial thought -- The age of exploration -- Natural philosophy and the colonial experience : the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The science of anthropology -- The Atlantic slave system -- Enlightenment values and racial thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay -- 2. The establishment of racial typology, 1800-1859 -- The reign of monogenism : Prichard and Lawrence -- Steps toward polygenesis -- American polygenism : Morton, Nott, and Gliddon -- Polygenism in the land of Prichard -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay -- 3. Race and evolution, 1859-1900 -- Darwin's argument in On the origin of species -- Darwin and Wallace on natural selection and human origins -- Darwin on human evolution -- Physical anthropology and the persistence of polygenism -- Spencer and evolution -- Spencer on the savage mind -- Social Darwinism and its variants -- Social Darwinism in Germany -- Sociocultural evolutionism in Britain -- Bibliographic essay -- 4. The hardening of scientific racism, 1900-1945 -- The problem of heredity -- Francis Galton -- Hard heredity -- The rise of Nordicism -- Nordicism and civilization -- The supremacy of Nordics -- The rise of eugenics -- Eugenics and race in the United States -- German Rassenhygiene -- Bibliographic essay
  • 5. The retreat of scientific racism, 1890-1940 -- Boas and the culture concept -- Boasian anthropology and Black folklore -- Psychologists and the critique of IQ testing -- From race psychology to studies in prejudice -- Genetics and the critique of eugenics -- Bibliographic essay -- 6. The liberal orthodoxy, 1940-1960 -- The geneticists' manifesto -- Wartime antiracism : Benedict, Montagu, and Dunn and Dobzhansky -- Experts in prejudice -- An American dilemma -- The post-Myrdal liberal orthodoxy -- The damage argument -- The breakdown of the liberal orthodoxy -- The UNESCO statements on race -- Bibliographic essay -- 7. A multicultural science of race, 1965 to the present -- Movement scholarship -- The rejection of the pathology of Black culture -- Institutional racism and colonialism -- Genetics, new physical anthropology, and the abandonment of race -- Forward to the past : the psychometrician case for race differences -- Psychometrics, intelligence, and heritability -- Geneticists versus the psychometricians -- The psychometricians versus scholars of institutional racism -- Psychometric case for policy -- Bibliographic essay -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Documents
Control code
ocm58976108
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xv, 401 pages
Isbn
9780813537368
Lccn
2005009515
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)58976108
Label
Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction, John P. Jackson, Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman
Publication
Note
Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2004, in series: Science and society
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 1. The origins of racial science, antiquity-1800 -- Was there race in antiquity? -- The curse of Ham and medieval racial thought -- The age of exploration -- Natural philosophy and the colonial experience : the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The science of anthropology -- The Atlantic slave system -- Enlightenment values and racial thought -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay -- 2. The establishment of racial typology, 1800-1859 -- The reign of monogenism : Prichard and Lawrence -- Steps toward polygenesis -- American polygenism : Morton, Nott, and Gliddon -- Polygenism in the land of Prichard -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic essay -- 3. Race and evolution, 1859-1900 -- Darwin's argument in On the origin of species -- Darwin and Wallace on natural selection and human origins -- Darwin on human evolution -- Physical anthropology and the persistence of polygenism -- Spencer and evolution -- Spencer on the savage mind -- Social Darwinism and its variants -- Social Darwinism in Germany -- Sociocultural evolutionism in Britain -- Bibliographic essay -- 4. The hardening of scientific racism, 1900-1945 -- The problem of heredity -- Francis Galton -- Hard heredity -- The rise of Nordicism -- Nordicism and civilization -- The supremacy of Nordics -- The rise of eugenics -- Eugenics and race in the United States -- German Rassenhygiene -- Bibliographic essay
  • 5. The retreat of scientific racism, 1890-1940 -- Boas and the culture concept -- Boasian anthropology and Black folklore -- Psychologists and the critique of IQ testing -- From race psychology to studies in prejudice -- Genetics and the critique of eugenics -- Bibliographic essay -- 6. The liberal orthodoxy, 1940-1960 -- The geneticists' manifesto -- Wartime antiracism : Benedict, Montagu, and Dunn and Dobzhansky -- Experts in prejudice -- An American dilemma -- The post-Myrdal liberal orthodoxy -- The damage argument -- The breakdown of the liberal orthodoxy -- The UNESCO statements on race -- Bibliographic essay -- 7. A multicultural science of race, 1965 to the present -- Movement scholarship -- The rejection of the pathology of Black culture -- Institutional racism and colonialism -- Genetics, new physical anthropology, and the abandonment of race -- Forward to the past : the psychometrician case for race differences -- Psychometrics, intelligence, and heritability -- Geneticists versus the psychometricians -- The psychometricians versus scholars of institutional racism -- Psychometric case for policy -- Bibliographic essay -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Documents
Control code
ocm58976108
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xv, 401 pages
Isbn
9780813537368
Lccn
2005009515
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)58976108

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