Superior: The Return of Race Science

✍ Scribed by Saini, Angela

• Book ID: 110248695
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807076910

✦ Synopsis

A powerful look at the non-scientific history of "race science," and the assumptions, prejudices, and incentives that have allowed it to reemerge in contemporary science
Origins tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.
After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of unrepentant eugenicists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein’s and Charles Murray’s 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.
If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas, and considered race a social construct, it was still an idea that managed to somehow make its way into the research into the human genome that began in earnest in the...