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Is Science Racist? - Jonathan Marks

Is Science Racist?

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Buch | Softcover
140 Seiten
2017
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8922-7 (ISBN)
CHF 17,95 inkl. MwSt
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.

The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically.

This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.

Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1 Introduction
2 How science invented race
3 Science, race, and genomics
4 Racism and biomedical science
5 What we know, and why it matters

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Debating Race
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 119 x 183 mm
Gewicht 159 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7456-8922-1 / 0745689221
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-8922-7 / 9780745689227
Zustand Neuware
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