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Superior : the return of race science  Cover Image Book Book

Superior : the return of race science / Angela Saini.

Summary:

"In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini 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 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. Superior is a powerful, rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious history and damaging consequences of race science and the unfortunate reasons behind its apparent recent resurgence across the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780807076910 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 241 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Race > Research.
Eugenics.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Stroud Branch. (Show)

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Stroud Branch 305.800723 Sai 31681010153260 NONFIC Available -


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