The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science

by Shipman, Pat

• ISBN13: 9780674008625
• ISBN10: 0674008626
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

In an intellectually engaging narrative that mixes science and history, theories and personalities, Pat Shipman asks the question: Can we have legitimate scientific investigations of differences among humans without sounding racist? Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory into eugenics; the conflict between laboratory research in genetics and fieldwork in physical anthropology and biology; and the continuing controversies over the heritability of intelligence, criminal behavior, and other traits, the book explains both prewar eugenics and postwar taboos on letting the insights of genetics and evolution into the study of humanity.

Table of Contents

Prologue	13	(15)
Part I. Evolution	15	(56)
One Long Argument: 1857	17	(20)
A Man Who Has Lost Himself	37	(16)
The Question of Questions for Mankind	53	(18)
Part II. Evolution Evolving	71	(34)
Enthusiastic Propagandism	73	(12)
Freedom in Science	85	(20)
Part III Evolutionary Racism	105	(38)
Survival of the Unfittest	107	(15)
Sweeping Toward a Racial Abyss	122	(21)
Part IV. The Genetics of Evolution	143	(28)
As Blond as Hitler	145	(11)
All Non-Jews Are Anti-Semitic	156	(15)
Part V. Evolutionary Politics	171	(52)
Pernicious Doctrines of Racial Inequality	173	(19)
As Brainwashed as Pavlov's Puppies	192	(10)
To Padlock the Mind	202	(21)
Part VI. The Genetics of Racism	223	(40)
The Ratio of Light to Heat	225	(15)
A Conflict Character	240	(23)
Epilogue: Valuing the Differences	263	(10)
Notes	273	(20)
Bibliography	293	(12)
Index	305