Science, race, and ethnicity
Subtitle: readings from Isis and Osiris
By: edited by John P. Jackson, Jr.
Contributors: Jackson, John P., 1961-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Race; Science and civilization; Science -- Social aspects; Eugenics; Race awareness; Race discrimination
Other titles: Isis.; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan; title: Alfred Russel Wallace, the origin of man, and spiritualism / Malcolm Jay Kottler; title: William Charles Wells and the races of man / Kentwood D. Wells; title: The Duke of Argyll, evolutionary anthropology and the art of scientific controversy / Neal C. Gillespie; title: Racial science, social science, and the politics of Jewish assimilation / Mitchell B. Hart; title: The solvency of metaphysics: the debate over racial science and moral philosophy in France, 1890-1919 / Jennifer Michael Hecht; title: The American scientist as social activist: Franz Boas, Burt G. Wilder, and the cause of racial justice, 1900-1915 / Edward H. Beardsley; title: Blind law and powerless science: the American Jewish congress, the NAACP, and the scientific case against discrimination, 1945-1950 / John P. Jackson, Jr.; title: German eugenics between science and politics / Peter Weingart; title: The race hygiene movement in Germany ; Wilhelm Schallmayer and the logic of German eugenics / Sheila Faith Weiss; title: Anthropological institutions in nineteenth-century France / Elizabeth Williams; title: The eugenics record office at Cold Spring Harbor, 1910-1940: an essay in institutional history / Garland E. Allen; title: It may be truth, but it is not evidence: Paul Du Chaillu and the legitimation of evidence in the field sciences / Stuart McCook; title: Francis La Flesche: the American Indian as anthropologist /Joan Mark; title: Imperialism, colonial Identity, and race in Algeria, 1830-1870: the role of the French medical corps / Patricia M.E. Lorcin; title: Racism and medical science in South Africa's Cape colony in the mid- to late nineteenth century / Harriet Deacon; title: Debating racial science in wartime Japan / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.