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Race and human evolution / by Wolpoff, Milford H.(CARDINAL)509924; Caspari, Rachel,1957-(CARDINAL)637739;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-437) and index.1480L
Subjects: Human evolution; Fossil hominids.; Racism; Racism in anthropology; Racism.;
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Racecraft : the soul of inequality in American life / by Fields, Karen E.(Karen Elise),1945-author.(CARDINAL)166893; Fields, Barbara Jeanne,author.(CARDINAL)856793;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A tour of racecraft -- Individual stories and America's collective past -- Of rogues and geldings -- Slavery, race, and ideology in the United States of America -- Origins of the new south and the negro question -- What one cannot remember mistakenly -- Witchcraft and racecraft : invisible ontology in its sensible manifestations -- Individuality and the intellectuals : an imaginary conversation between Emile Durkheim and W.E.B. Du Bois -- Conclusion : racecraft and inequality."Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call 'racecraft.' So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed. That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Racism; Racism in anthropology; Physical anthropology; Racism.;
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Bone rooms : from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums / by Redman, Samuel J.,author.(CARDINAL)404228;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-353) and index.Collecting bodies for science -- Salvaging race and remains -- The medical body on display -- The story of man through the ages -- Scientific racism and museum remains -- Skeletons and human prehistory."This book explores human remains as objects for research and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Influenced by early skull collectors such as Samuel George Morton, zealous scientists at museums in the United States established human skeletal collections. Museums such as the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Field Museum of Natural History established their own collections. Universities soon followed, with bones collected for Penn, Berkeley, and Harvard. American Indian remains collected from the American West arrived at museums at an increasingly fervent pace, and the project swiftly became global in scope. Coinciding with a high-water mark in Euro-American colonialism, collecting bones became a unique and evolving expression of colonialism experienced through archaeological, anthropological, and anatomical study of race and the body via work with human remains collections. In revealing this story, The Great Bone Race surveys shifts away from racial classification theories toward emerging ideas regarding human origins, arguing that the study of human remains contributed significantly to changing ideas about race and human history. These ideas were hotly contested, and competition to collect and exhibit rare human remains from around the world thrust ideas about race and history into the public realm through prominent museum displays visited by millions."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology); Archaeological museums and collections; Archaeological museums and collections; Archaeology; Racism in anthropology;
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Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.,editor.; Curran, Andrew S.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface: Who is black and why? -- Part I. The 1741 essays on the "degeneration" of black skin and hair -- Introduction: Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Science and the 1741 contest on skin and hair -- Blackness through the power of God -- Blackness through the soul of the father -- Blackness through the maternal imagination -- Blackness as a moral defect -- Blackness as a result of the torrid zone -- Blackness as a result of divine providence -- Blackness as a result of heat and humidity -- Blackness as a reversible accident -- Blackness as a result of hot air and darkened blood -- Blackness as a result of a darkened humor -- Blackness as a result of blood flow -- Blackness as an extension of optical theory -- Blackness as a result of an original sickness -- Blackness degenerated -- Blackness classified -- Blackness dissected -- Part II. The 1772 contest on "preserving" Negroes -- Introduction: The 1772 essays on "preserving" Negroes -- A slave ship surgeon on the crossing -- A Parisian humanitarian on the slave trade -- Louis Alphonse, Bordeaux apothecary, on the crossing."In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans' black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy"--
Subjects: Académie royale des sciences (France); Racism in anthropology; Scientific racism; Black race; Black race; Europeans; Racism; Racism against Black people; Black race; Black race; Racism.;
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We carry their bones : The search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys / by Kimmerle, Erin H.,author.;
Author's note -- Chapter 1: Opening the Earth -- Chapter 2: New light -- Chapter 3: Graveyard -- Chapter 4: The Battle of Boot Hill -- Chatper 5: "Satan has his seat" -- Chapter 6: A meeting with the Chief -- Chapter 7:"Hell on Earth" -- Chapter 8: "We can't forget what happened in Jackson County" -- Chapter 9: "Oftentimes, history doesn't include the good parts" -- Chapter 10: "Thank you all for your good work" -- Chapter 11: Reconstruction -- Chapter 12: Identification -- Chapter 13: "It's not even past" -- Chapter 14: "Where is he?" -- Chapter 15: "The unimaginable happened at Dozier" -- Chapter 16: "You have the truth on your side" -- Chapter 17: What remains -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad. Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School—the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys—and the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families. The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school’s management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the school’s shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school’s graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The school’s poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school’s property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle’s work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncovering—one she continues to investigate to this day. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. It’s also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their families—an endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America.
Subjects: Secrecy.; Investigations.; Children and death.; Twentieth century.; Racism.; Race discrimination.; Prejudices.; Discrimination in education.; Slavery.; DNA; School buildings; School children.; School buildings.; History.; Abused children.; Cruelty.; Anthropology.; African American interest.; African Americans.; African American children.; Indentured servants.; Secrecy.; Racism.;
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Race : the history of an idea in America / by Gossett, Thomas F.,1916-2005.(CARDINAL)173366;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-510) and index.Early race theories -- England's American colonies and race theories -- Eighteenth century anthropology -- Nineteenth century anthropology -- The Teutonic origins theory -- The study of language and literature -- Race and social Darwinism -- The social gospel and race -- Literary naturalism and race -- The Indian in the nineteenth century -- The status of the Negro: 1865-1915 -- Anti-immigration agitation: 1865-1915 -- Imperialism and the Anglo-Saxon -- World War I and racism -- Racism in the 1920s -- The scientific revolt against racism -- The battle against prejudice.1450L
Subjects: Racism; Race awareness; Minorities; Racism.;
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The myth of race : the troubling persistence of an unscientific idea / by Sussman, Robert W.,1941-(CARDINAL)780107;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Biological races do not exist -- and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned "Aryans," as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization -- policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas's new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why -- when it comes to race -- too many people still mistake bigotry for science."--Jacket.
Subjects: Race.; Racism.; Racism.;
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Race : are we so different? / by Goodman, Alan H.(CARDINAL)785022; Moses, Yolanda T.(CARDINAL)785021; Jones, Joseph L.(CARDINAL)801999;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Histories of race, difference, and racism. Introducing race ; Creating race ; Human mismeasure ; Inventing whiteness ; Separate and unequal -- Why human variation is not racial. Introduction : Race [does not equal] human biological variation ; Skin deep? ; Sickle cell disease: not for blacks only ; The apportionment of variation, or why we are all Africans under the skin ; The evolution of variation -- Living with race and racism. Introduction ; Race and the census ; Race and education ; Linking race and wealth: an American dilemma ; Race and health disparities.Featuring essays by noted anthropologists and photos from the American Anthropological Association's "RACE: Are We So Different?" project, this book explores how the notion of race has changed throughout history, as well as contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States; how race and racism have influenced laws, customs, and social institutions; and how current scientific understanding is often inconsistent with popular beliefs about race.
Subjects: Race; Race; Racism; Racism.; Racism.;
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Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States / by Holmes, Seth M.,1975-(CARDINAL)402358;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.Introduction: "Worth risking your life?" -- "We are field workers": embodied anthropology of migration -- Segregation on the farm: ethnic hierarchies at work -- "How the poor suffer": embodying the violence continuum -- "Doctors don't know anything": the clinical gaze in the field of migrant health -- "Because they're lower to the ground": naturalizing social suffering -- Conclusion: change, pragmatic solidarity, and beyond."Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care."--From publisher description.
Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers;
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Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century / by Roberts, Dorothy E.,1956-author.(CARDINAL)382600;
Includes bibliographical references and index.I. Believing in race in the genomic age -- Invention of race -- Separating racial science from racism -- 2. The new racial science -- Redefining race in genetic terms -- Medical stereotyping -- Allure of race in biomedical research -- Embodying race -- 3. Pharmacoethnicity -- Color-coded pills -- Race and the new biocitizen -- Tracing racial roots -- 4. Genetic surveillance -- Biological race in a "postracial" America -- Crossroads.Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Creative nonfiction.; Race; Race; Race; Physical anthropology.; Human population genetics.; Genomics.;
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