Article ID: CBB001421206

Race and History: Comments from an Epistemological Point of View (2014)

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Müller-Wille, Staffan (Author)


Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 39, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 597-606


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Technologies of Belonging”
Language: English

The historiography of race is usually framed by two discontinuities: the invention of race by European naturalists and anthropologists, marked by Carl Linnaeus's (1735) Systema naturae and the demise of racial typologies after World War II (WWII) in favor of population-based studies of human diversity. This framing serves a similar function as the quotation marks that almost invariably surround the term. Race is placed outside of rational discourse as a residue of outdated essentialist and hierarchical thinking. I will throw doubt on this underlying assumption, not in order to re-legitimate race but in order to understand better why race has been, and continues to be, such a politically powerful and explosive concept.

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Authors & Contributors
Bonmassar, Michele
Brian Hochman
Balogh, Piroska
Teslow, Tracy
Arvin, Maile Renee
Widmer, Alexandra
Concepts
Science and race
Anthropology
Human genetics
Physical anthropology
Racism
World War II
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Germany
United States
Italy
Belgium
Australia
Brazil
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNESCO
Rockefeller Foundation
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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