Is Science Racist? (Debating Race) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 6: Debating Race

Marks, Jonathan

 
9780745689227: Is Science Racist? (Debating Race)
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ISBN 10: 0745689221 ISBN 13: 9780745689227
Verlag: Polity Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues―chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb―and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.

The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically.

This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.

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Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Verlag
Polity Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745689221
ISBN 13 
9780745689227
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140
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