Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa write by Saul Dubow. This book was released on 1995-06-30. Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa.
Darwin's Hunch
Darwin's Hunch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Darwin's Hunch write by Christa Kuljian. This book was released on 2016. Darwin's Hunch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins - in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics - over the past century. The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the hope that they would provide clues to human evolution. Kuljian sheds light on how, during apartheid, the concept of racial classification mirrored the way in which many scientists thought about race and human evolution.
Superior
Superior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Superior write by Angela Saini. This book was released on 2019-05-21. Superior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences. Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between “races”—to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions—stubbornly persists. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science—and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.
Racism: a Very Short Introduction
Racism: a Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Racism: a Very Short Introduction write by Ali Rattansi. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Racism: a Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are a variety of racisms at play, and it is necessary to distinguish between issues such as individual prejudice, and systematic racisms which entrench racialiazed inequalities over time. This Very Short Introduction explores the history of racial ideas and a wide range of racisms - biological, cultural, colour-blind, and structural - and illuminates issues that have been the subject of recent debates. Is Islamophobia a form of racism? Is there a new antisemitism? Why has whiteness become an important source of debate? What is Intersectionality? What is unconscious or implicit bias, and what is its importance in understanding racial discrimination? Ali Rattansi tackles these questions, and also shows why African Americans and other ethnic minorities in the USA and Europe continue to suffer from discrimination today that results in ongoing disadvantage in these white dominant societies. Finally he explains why there has been a resurgence of national populist and far-right movements and explores their implications for the future of racism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scientific Imagination in South Africa write by William Beinart. This book was released on 2021-05-20. The Scientific Imagination in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
