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Outcasts from evolution : scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859-1900 / John S. Haller, Jr.
LIBRA E185.61 .H3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Black race.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Anthropology--History.
- Anthropology.
- History.
- Black People.
- Black People--history.
- Anthropometry.
- Biological Evolution.
- Race Relations--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Black People.
- Black People--history.
- Anthropometry.
- Biological Evolution.
- Race Relations--history.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Race relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1971]
- Contents:
- Attitudes of racial inferiority in nineteenth-century anthropometry
- The physician versus the Negro
- The species problem: the origin of man controversy
- Race and the concept of progress in nineteenth-century ethnology
- From biology to sociology: Spencer and his disciples
- Portraits of nineteenth-century academic thinking on race
- The politics of "natural" extinction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1972
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haller, John S. Outcasts from evolution.
- ISBN:
- 0252001648
- 9780252001642
- OCLC:
- 161868
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