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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race - American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race - American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Series: History and Philosophy of Biology
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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence
of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and
evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully
articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited
scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian
terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to
assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By
working across disciplinary lines, the book's focal figures--the
anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred
Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical
anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive
ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social
constructionist views of race by grounding Boas's racially
egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically
pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of
natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this
argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard
Lewontin. Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced
undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in
subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of
Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science.
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