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Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown V. Board of Education

Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown V. Board of Education

Hardcover

Series: Critical America, Book 2

AnthropologyGeneral LawGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0814742718
ISBN13: 9780814742716
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 291
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

In this fascinating examination of the intriguing but understudied period following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, John Jackson examines the scientific case aimed at dismantling the legislation.
Offering a trenchant assessment of the so-called scientific evidence, Jackson focuses on the 1959 formation of the International Society for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE), whose expressed function was to objectively investigate racial differences and publicize their findings. Notable figures included Carleton Putnam, Wesley Critz George, and Carleton Coon. In an attempt to link race, eugenics and intelligence, they launched legal challenges to the Brown ruling, each chronicled here, that went to trial but ultimately failed.

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