Superior : the return of race science
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2019].
ISBN
0807076910, 9780807076910
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xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.8 SAINI 2019
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Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2019].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0807076910, 9780807076910

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Explores the concept of race, past and present. She examines the dark roots of race research and how race has again crept gently back into science and medicine. And she investigates the people who use this research for their own political purposes, including white supremacists. They believe that populations are born different, in character and intellectually, and that this defines the success or failure of nations. It is a worldwide network of eugenicists with their own journals and sources of funding, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. Taking us from Darwin through the civil rights movement to modern-day ancestry testing, Saini examines how deeply our present is influenced by our past, and the role that politics has so often had to play in our understanding of race."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Saini, A. (2019). Superior: the return of race science . Beacon Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Saini, Angela, 1980-. 2019. Superior: The Return of Race Science. Beacon Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Saini, Angela, 1980-. Superior: The Return of Race Science Beacon Press, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Saini, Angela. Superior: The Return of Race Science Beacon Press, 2019.

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