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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (2017)

Jackson, John P. (Author)
Depew, David J. (Author)

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ISBN: 9781138628175

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 252 pp.
Language: English

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Evolutionary developmental biology Science and race Anthropology Darwinism 20th century United States Lewontin, Richard C. Gould, Stephen Jay Montagu, Ashley Washburn, Sherwood Larned Dobzhansky, Theodosius Kroeber, Alfred Louis Boas, Franz

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book’s focal figures--the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas’s racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science.

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Review Kostas Kampourakis (2018) Review of "Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century". Science and Education (pp. 589-590). unapi

Essay Review Brian M. Donovan (2018) Looking Backwards to Move Biology Education Toward Its Humanitarian Potential: A Review of Darwinism, Democracy, and Race. Science Education (pp. 1399-1404). unapi

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