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Is science racist? (Paperback)
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Is science racist? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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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. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this
dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty
of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.
The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the
commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken
belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their
boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not
being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible
to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through
the humanities: historically, experientially, politically. This
wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific
racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and
undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.
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