Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226389356)

Recent scholarship has argued that "race" is a fairly recent concept in Western thought and arose concurrently with modern science. Yet, in recent decades, science has been a powerful tool employed against racialist thinking. How is it that science has been a factor for both the rise of racialist thinking and its demise? This volume of essays, drawn from the journals Isis and Osiris, demonstrates that race and political and social ideologies have interacted in complex and unexpected ways.

Author: John P. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0226389359
ISBN-13: 9780226389356
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2002
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 10.22h x 6.08w x 1.05d