Science, Race, and Ethnicity Readings from Isis and Osiris |
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| Editor:
| Jackson, John P.
Jackson, John P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-38935-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionRecent 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.