Elazar Barkan

Retreat of Scientific Racism

Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two world wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to biological but to cultural factors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780521458757
• ISBN-10: 0521458757
• Artikelnr.: 22186874

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Anthropology: 1. Constructing a British identity
2. American diversity
Part II. Biology: 3. In search of a biology of race
4. The limit of traditional reform
5. Mitigating racial differences
Part III. Politics: 6. Confronting racism: scientists as politicians
Epilogue.