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.