The myth of race : the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea / Robert Wald Sussman.

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Biological races do not exist -- and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sussman, Robert W., 1941-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Race.
Racism.
Physical Description:ix, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Early racism in western Europe
  • The birth of eugenics
  • The merging of polygenics and eugenics
  • Eugenics and the Nazis
  • The antidote : Boas and the anthropological concept of culture
  • Physical anthropology in the early twentieth century
  • The downfall of eugenics
  • The beginnings of modern scientific racism
  • The Pioneer Fund, 1970s-1990s
  • The Pioneer Fund in the twenty-first century
  • Modern racism and anti-immigration policies
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A : The eugenics movement, 1890s-1940s
  • Appendix B : The Pioneer Fund.