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The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics

Hammonds, Evelynn M.
Herzig, Rebecca M.

Paperback

AnthropologySports GeneralGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0262582759
ISBN13: 9780262582759
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 31 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.

The Nature of Difference documents how distinctions between people have been generated in and by the life sciences. Through insightful commentaries and a wide-ranging selection of primary documents by the editors, it charts the shifting boundaries of science and race through more than two centuries of American history. The documents, primarily writings by authoritative, eminent scientists intended for their professional peers, show how various sciences of race have changed their object of study over time: from racial groups to types to populations to genomes and beyond. The book's thematic and synthetic approach reveals the profoundly diverse array of practices--countless acts of observation, quantification, and experimentation--that enabled the consequential categorizations we inherit.

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