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Man's most dangerous myth : the fallacy of race / Ashley Montagu.
Penn Museum Library GN280 .M59 1997
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LIBRA GN280 .M59 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 699 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This new edition contains Montagu's most complete explication of his theory and a thorough updating of previous editions.
- Contents:
- The origin of the concept of race
- The fallaciousness of the older anthropological conception of race
- The genetical theory of race
- The biological facts
- Natural selection and the mental capacities of humankind
- The mythology of race, or for whom the bell tolls
- Race and society
- Biological and social factors
- Psychological factors
- The creative power of ethnic mixture
- Eugenics, genetics and race
- Race and culture
- Race and war
- Race and blood
- Innate aggression and race
- Myths relating to the physical traits of Blacks
- Are the Jews a race?
- The first Americans
- The meaning of equal opportunity
- Race and democracy
- Racism and social action
- Sociocultural behavioral influences
- Intelligence, IQ, and race.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-678) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0803946473
- 0803946481
- OCLC:
- 37238875
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