"Race" is a four-letter word : the genesis of the concept, C. Loring Brace

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"Race" is a four-letter word : the genesis of the concept, C. Loring Brace

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the genesis of the concept

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C. Loring Brace

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• "Race" is a four-letter word : the genesis of the concept

Publication

• New York, Oxford University Press, 2005

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-316) and index

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Contents

The biology of human variation -- The perception of human differences in the past -- One origin or many? -- Anthropology in the Enlightenment -- The triumph of feeling over reason -- Phrenology -- The founding of the American school of anthropology -- Passing the torch -- The demise of monogenism and the rise of polygenism -- Toward a war over slavery and afterward -- The French connection -- The legacy of the American school in America -- The ethos of eugenics -- Henry Ford and the ethos of the Holocaust -- The outlook of the "bigot brigade" -- The Galtonian legacy in America -- "Race" in biological anthropology -- The legacy of the Pioneer Fund -- "Otherism."

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55494873

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25 cm

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x, 326 pages

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9780195173512

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(paper : acid-free paper)

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2004052081

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illustrations, maps

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.b52809869