Science, Race, and Ethnicity

by Jackson, John P., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780226389356
• ISBN10: 0226389359
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Recent scholarship has argued that "race" is a fairly recent concept in Western thought and arose concurrently with modern science. Yet, in recent decades, science has been a powerful tool employed against racialist thinking. How is it that science has been a factor for both the rise of racialist thinking and its demise? This volume of essays, drawn from the journals Isis and Osiris, demonstrates that race and political and social ideologies have interacted in complex and unexpected ways.

Author Biography

John P. Jackson, Jr. is an instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword	1	(4)
John P. Jackson, Jr.
Overview
Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science	5	(17)
Nancy Leys Stepan
Darwinism and Race
Alfred Russel Wallace, the Origin of Man, and Spiritualism	22	(49)
Malcolm Jay Kottler
William Charles Wells and the Races of Man	71	(12)
Kentwood D. Wells
The Duke of Argyll, Evolutionary Anthropology and the Art of Scientific Controversy	83	(16)
Neal C. Gillespie
Science, Race, and Politics
Racial Science, Social Science, and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation	99	(31)
Mitchell B. Hart
The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890--1919	130	(25)
Jennifer Michael Hecht
The American Scientist as Social Activist: Franz Boas, Burt G. Wilder, and the Cause of Racial Justice, 1900--1915	155	(18)
Edward H. Beardsley
Blind Law and Powerless Science: The American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the Scientific Case Against Discrimination, 1945--1950	173	(28)
John P. Jackson Jr.
Rassenhygiene and Germany
German Eugenics between Science and Politics	201	(24)
Peter Weingart
The Race Hygiene Movement in Germany	225	(44)
Sheila Faith Weiss
Wilhelm Schallmayer and the Logic of German Eugenics	269	(14)
Sheila Faith Weiss
The Institutional Bases of Racial Science
Anthropological Institutions in Nineteenth-Century France	283	(18)
Elizabeth Williams
The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, 1910--1940: An Essay in Institutional History	301	(40)
Garland E. Allen
It May Be Truth, But It Is Not Evidence: Paul Du Chaillu and the Legitimation of Evidence in the Field Sciences	341	(21)
Stuart Mccook
Francis La Flesche: The American Indian as Anthropologist	362	(16)
Joan Mark
Racial Science, National Contexts, and Colonialism
Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830--1870: The Role of the French Medical Corps	378	(29)
Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Racism and Medical Science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the Mid to Late Nineteenth Century	407	(18)
Harriet Deacon
Debating Racial Science in Wartime Japan	425	(22)
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Index	447