The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science - Hardcover

Shipman, Pat

 
9780671754600: The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science

Synopsis

Combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences

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About the Author

Pat Shipman is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing (coauthored with Alan Walker) which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year (1998)

Synopsis

Combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences.

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ISBN 10:  0674008626 ISBN 13:  9780674008625
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002
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