Is Science Racist?
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Is Science Racist?

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Is Science Racist?

About this book

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.

The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically.

This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.

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Index

    • accuracy
    • African/black Americans
      • adopted identity
      • heart medicine
      • sickle-cell screening program
      • “Tuskegee experiment”
      • violence against
    • Africans
      • genetic studies
      • Linnaean classification
      • “races of Africa”
    • “agnotology”
    • ancestry
      • genomic testing
      • question and narratives of
    • anthropology
      • founding principle
      • “paradigm shift”
      • perspective on science
      • physical
      • relatedness
    • Anthropology Society of London
    • Aristotle
    • Aryan civilization
    • Asians
      • Japanese
    • Baartman, Saarjie
    • Bacon, Francis
    • Barash, D.P.
    • biblical accounts
      • creationism
    • BiDil (heart drug)
    • black Americans see African/black Americans
    • blood groups
    • Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
    • Boas, Franz
    • Bouchard, Thomas
    • boundary identities
    • Boyd, William
    • Brandt, Karl
    • Buffon, Count de
    • Burt, Cyril
    • Caucasians
    • census form classifications, UK and US
    • classification systems
      • historical and political
      • taxonomic...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. One: Introduction
  9. Two: How science invented race
  10. Three: Science, race, and genomics
  11. Four: Racism and biomedical science
  12. Five: What we know, and why it matters
  13. References
  14. Index
  15. End User License Agreement