The Emperor's new clothes : biological theories of race at the millennium
"In this book, Joseph Graves traces the development of thought about human genetic diversity. He argues that racism has persisted in our society because adequate scientific reasoning has not entered into the equation. Graves champions the scientific method, and explains how we may properly ask questions about the nature of population differentiation and how (if at all) we may correlate that diversity to differences in human capacity and behavior. He also cautions us to think critically about scientific findings that have historically been misused in controversies over racial differences in intelligence heritability, criminal behavior disease predisposition, and other traits. Greek philosophy, social Darwinism, New World colonialism, the eugenics movement, intelligence testing biases, and racial health fallacies are just a few of the topics he addresses." "According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand that separate human races do not exist empirically. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be expunged."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2001
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2001
viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813528472, 9780813533025, 081352847X, 0813533023
44066982
Pt. 1: The origin of the race concept
The earliest theories : race before the age of discovery
Colonialism, slavery, and race in the New World
Pre-Darwinian theories of biology and race
Pt. 2: Darwin and the survival of scientific racism
Darwinism revolutionizes anthropology
Race and social Darwinism
Pseudoscience and the founding of eugenics
Pt. 3: Applications and misapplications of Darwinism
Mendelism, the neo-Darwinian synthesis, and the growth of eugenics
Eugenics, race, and fascism : the road to Auschwitz went through Cold Spring Harbor
The retreat and postwar revival of scientific racism
Pt. 4: Biological theories of race at the millennium
The race and IQ fallacy
The race and disease fallacy