With the Human Genome Project, science should have put to rest the notion that some races are genetically superior. But science is where the concept of race came from in the first place-through the work of such revered figures as Carl Linnaeus and Charles Darwin-and was ultimately used to justify slavery, segregation, and genocide.
John P. Jackson, Jr., PhD, teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO. Nadine M. Weidman, PhD, teaches history of science at the Harvard University Extension School in Cambridge, MA.
"The authors ... offer a general synthesis of the enormous literature on the topic in bibliographic essays, and a narrative overview of the history of race ideology ... Recommended. Secondary school and undergraduate libraries." - Choice
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