The Retreat of Scientific Racism
Subtitle: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 24, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780521458757
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Sociology; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Physical; Discrimination & Racism; History; Political Science / History & Theory; Race relations; Social Science-Anthropology - Physical; Social Science-Discrimination & Racism; History & Theory - General
First sentence: The modern meaning of race originated in eighteenth-century zoology, and was later applied to humans by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who formulated a terminology of physical anthropology and classified humankind into the now all-too-familiar color categories: black, brown, yellow, red and white.