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Superior : the return of race science

Saini, Angela, 1980- author

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\"Explores the concept of race, past and present. She examines the dark roots of race research and how race has again crept gently back into science and medicine. And she investigates the people who use this research for their own political purposes, including white supremacists. They believe that populations are born different, in character and intellectually, and that this defines the success or failure of nations. It is a worldwide network of eugenicists with their own journals and sources of funding, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. Taking us from Darwin through the civil rights movement to modern-day ancestry testing, Saini examines how deeply our present is influenced by our past, and the role that politics has so often had to play in our understanding of race.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Subject: Race Research. / Eugenics. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. / SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
• ISBN: 9780807076910

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HT1506.S25 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE