The Emperor's new clothes : biological theories of race at the millennium /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Graves, Joseph L., 1955-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2001.
Subjects:	Race. Physical anthropology. Sociobiology. Racism in anthropology. Continental Population Groups. Anthropology, Physical > history. Prejudice. Race Relations. Anthropologie physique. Sociobiologie. Racisme en anthropologie. Rassen (mens) Rassentheorieën. Rassendiscriminatie. Biologische aspecten. Soziobiologie. Rassismus. Anthropologie.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Racial thinking : complaints and disorders
pt. 1. The origin of the race concept
The earliest theories : race before the age of discovery
Colonialism, slavery, and race in the New World
Pre-Darwinian theories of biology and race
pt. 2. Darwin and the survival of scientific racism
Darwinism revolutionizes anthropology
Race and social Darwinism
Pseudoscience and the founding of eugenics
pt. 3. Applications and misapplications of Darwinism
Mendelism, the neo-Darwinian synthesis, and the growth of eugenics
Eugenics, race, and fascism : the road to Auschwitz went through Cold Spring Harbor
The retreat and postwar revival of scientific racism
pt. 4. Biological theories of race at the millennium
The race and IQ fallacy
The race and disease fallacy
Conclusion: What can or will we do without race?
Appendices.