Book ID: CBB729336001

Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934 (2015)

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"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start. Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances. She tells of scientific 'experts' who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference. Stein examines the works of scientists and scholars from medicine, biology, ethnology, and other fields to trace how their conclusions about human difference did no less than to legitimize sociopolitical hierarchy in the United States. Covering a wide range of historical actors from Samuel Morton, the infamous collector and measurer of skulls in the 1830s, to NAACP leader and antilynching activist Walter White in the 1930s, this book reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making--and unmaking--of race"--

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Authors & Contributors
Katie Holmes
Sparks, Randy J.
Layne, Priscilla
Livio Sansone
Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
Willoughby, Christopher D. E.
Concepts
Science and race
Science and gender
Race
Racism
Biology
Sexuality
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
South America
Australia
Scotland
New Zealand
Institutions
Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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