THE RETREAT OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM by Elazar Barkan ( 9780521458757 )

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THE RETREAT OF SCIENTIFIC RACISM
CHANGING CONCEPTS OF RACE IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS

By:

Elazar Barkan

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0521458757

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 September, 1993

Pages:

396

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This fascinating study documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars.

Synopsis:

This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors.

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