The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Sussman, Robert Wald

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

Biological races do not exist--and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation...
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Sussman, Robert Wald

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

$43.99

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

$43.99
Author: Robert Wald Sussman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today.

The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned "Aryans," as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization--policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas's new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking.

Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why--when it comes to race--too many people still mistake bigotry for science.

Author: Robert Wald Sussman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/14/2016
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674660038

About the Author
Sussman, Robert Wald: - Robert Wald Sussman was Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

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