Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality : a history of dominant ideas / Ewen & Ewen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ewen, Elizabeth.

Contributor:

Ewen, Stuart.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Equality.

Physical Description:

xvii, 555 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

A Seven Stories Press first edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2006]

Summary:

The authors chronicle the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveal how the work of its creators--early social scientists--continues to shape how the world is viewed.

Contents:

Part 1 Genesis: The Modern World System

1 Didot's Invention 3

2 The Company of Strangers 11

3 Created Equal 19

4 Visual Truth 23

5 Curiosity Cabinets 31

Part 2 Taxonomies of Human Difference

6 Physiognomy: The Science of First Impressions 45

7 Hierarchies of Humanity 59

8 Camper's Angle 69

9 Tablier Rasa 83

10 Spurzheim's Funeral 101

11 Crania Americana 109

12 An American Tale 123

13 The Pencil of Nature 151

14 Facial Politics 169

15 The Costermonger's Tongue and Roget's Thesaurus 183

Interlude

16 Reverberations of Change 201

Part 3 The Faces of Degeneration

17 Identifying the Group Within the Individual 211

18 Finding the Individual Within the Group 223

19 Criminal Types 235

Part 4 Nordic Nightmares

20 The Amazing Race 257

21 Morons in Our Midst 279

22 Eugenics Goes to the Fair 313

Part 5 The Modern Battlegrounds of Type

23 Dat Famous Chicken Debate 327

24 Male and Female Created He Them 357

25 The Return of the Repressed 375

26 Writing History with Lightning 401

27 Movable Types 415

28 Persistence of Vision 437

29 Tales of Before and After 453

30 Recent Social Trends 473.

Notes:

Color map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-533) and index.

ISBN:

1583227350

OCLC:

67921887

Publisher Number:

9781583227350