Missions for Science traces the development and transfer of
technology in four Atlantic regions with populations of
predominantly African ancestry: the southern United States, the
Panama Canal Zone, Haiti, and Liberia. David McBride explores how
the pursuit of the scientific ideal, and the technical and medical
outgrowths of this pursuit, have shaped African diaspora
populations in these areas, asking:
-- What specific technologies and medical resources were
transferred by U.S. institutions to black populations centers and
why?
-- How did the professed aims of U.S. technical projects, public
health, and military activities differ from their actual effects
and consequences?
-- Did the U.S. technical transfer amount to a form of political
hegemony?
-- What lessons can we learn from the history of technology and
medicine in these key geographic regions?
Missions for Science is the first book to explain how modern
industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population
centers. McBride is the first to provide a historical analysis of
how shifting environmental factors and disease-control aid from the
United States affected the collective development of these
populations. He also discusses how independent black Atlantic
republics with close historical links to the United States
independently envisioned and attempted to use science and
technology to build their nations.
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