The Emperor's New Clothes

Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium

Joseph L. Graves Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2003
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-3302-5 (ISBN)

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Joseph L. Graves Jr traces the development of biological thought about human genetic diversity. He argues that racism can and should be overcome by demonstrating the empirical biological evidence that separate human races do not exist.

In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Graves traces the development of biological thought about human genetic diversity. 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.

Graves argues that racism has persisted in our society because adequate scientific reasoning has not entered into the equation. He champions the scientific method and explains how we may properly ask scientific questions about the nature of population differentiation and how (if at all) we may correlate that diversity to observed human 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.

According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems until people understand the empirical evidence behind this truth that separate human races do not exist. With the biological basis for race removed, racism becomes an ideology, one that can and must be deleted.

Joseph L. Graves Jr. is the author of The Race Myth. He is University Core Director and professor of biological sciences at Farleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 The Origin of the Race Concept
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Part 2 Darwin and the Survival of Scientific Racism
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6

Part 3 Applications and Misapplications of Darwinism
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9

Part 4 Biological Theories of Race at Millennium
Chapter 10
Chapter 11

Conclusion

Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2003
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-3302-3 / 0813533023
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-3302-5 / 9780813533025
Zustand	Neuware