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The nature of difference : sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics / edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race--Study and teaching--United States--History.
- Race.
- Race--Study and teaching--United States--History--Sources.
- Science--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--United States--History--Sources.
- Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Difference (Psychology).
- Difference (Psychology)--Social aspects--United States--History--Sources.
- Race awareness--United States--History.
- Race awareness.
- Race awareness--United States--History--Sources.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations--History--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 Dictionary Definitions of ""Race""; 2 Anatomical Observations ; 3 Immunity and Contagion ; 4 Evolution and Degeneration; 5 Techniques of Measurement; 6 Glandular Differences ; 7 Hybridity and Admixture ; 8 Toward Genetics ; 9 The End of Race? ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30901-7
- 0-262-27483-3
- 1-4416-0135-X
- OCLC:
- 312933520
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