The myth of human races / Alain Corcos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corcos, Alain F., 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate ""races"" of humanity exist. These protagonists of race theory have based their flawed research on one or more of five specious assumptions.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; A Word to the Reader; Introduction; Part One: Introduction; 1. Race is a Slippery Word; 2. Race Classification: An Impossible Task; 3. Skulls, Women, and Savages: The Art of Craniology; 4. Full Blood, Half-Blood, and Tainted Blood; 5. Racial Traits: More Fiction Than Fact; 6. You Cannot Judge a Book by its Cover; Part Two: Introduction; 7. Did We Evolve From Apes, and If So, from How Many?; 8. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fittest of Us All?; 9. Adaptive or not Adaptive, That is the Question; 10. Why Different Skin Colors?

11. Why Different Shapes of Noses? Why So Much or So Little Hair on the Body or the Head?; 12. Why Different Color of Eye and Hair?; 13. Race: Geneticists Led Astray; 14. Race and IQ: A Pseudo-Problem; 15. Race and Disease: Another Pseudo-Problem; 16. How The U.S. Government Classifies Its Citizens: A Real Problem; Part Three: Introduction; 17. Of Species and Races: A Modern View; 18. Each One of Us Is Unique; 19. Of Genes and Chromosomes: No One is Like You; 20. Myths About Ancestry; 21. Of DNA and Proteins, or No One is Like You; 22. Except for A Very Few of Us, We Are All Colored

23. Can We Change Our Skin Color?; 24. Nothing Under the Sun Is Just Black or White; 25. Genes and Skin Color: The More the Merrier; Concluding Thoughts; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-62895-215-6

0-87013-903-7

OCLC:

609259022