Race unmasked :

Yudell, Michael.

Race unmasked : biology and race in the twentieth century / Michael Yudell ; foreword by J. Craig Venter. - xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm

$ 40/-
TRP40/214

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.

A eugenic foundation -- Charles Davenport and the biology of blackness -- Eugenics in the public's eye -- The National Research Council and the scientific study of race -- Coloring race difference -- Biology and the problem of the color line -- Race and the evolutionary synthesis -- Consolidating the race concept in biology -- Challenges to the race concept -- Naturalizing racism: the controversy over sociobiology -- Race in the genomic age -- Epilogue: Dobzhansky's Paradox and the future of racial research.

9780231168748 (hbk.)


Eugenics--History--20th century.
Race--History--20th century.
Human biology--History--20th century.

363.9200904 YUD

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