This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the
Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific p
Since the eighteenth century when natural historians created the idea of distinct racial categories, scientific findings on race have been a double-edged sword.
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.