Evolution of Racism: The Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science

by Pat Shipman (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0671754600

ISBN-10: 0671754602

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Combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences

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From Publishers Weekly

Shipman, coauthor of The Neanderthals , has written an accessible history of the attempts of scientists, from the mid-19th century to the present, to grapple with issues of race. From Charles Darwin's wide-ranging explorations of evolution emerged fellow Briton's Thomas Henry Huxley's applications to human history. By the late 19th century, Herbert Spencer seized on Darwinism to argue for laissez-faire government. Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, proposed the idea of eugenics: advancing the species through careful breeding. From eugenics came intelligence testing, used in the early 20th century to the detriment of immigrants to America and eventually by Nazi science. Shipman tracks the continuing controversy in the 1950s and 1960s about whether to examine or deny racial difference and discusses at much length a proposed but canceled 1992 conference on genetics and crime. This thoughtful study warns that treating race as a taboo subject hinders legitimate scientific investigation of differences among humans.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Shipman, coauthor of The Neandertals (LJ 12/92), is quickly becoming one of the better popular science writers working today. Here she traces the intertwined history of evolution and racism from the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species to current controversies over genetic links to violent behavior. Despite the title, the story focuses more on the history of race as a scientific concept than on the misappropriation of such concepts by political leaders and social crusaders. As a result we learn much about the scientists involved in the debate but only a little about the use and abuse of science by nonscientists. Still, Shipman's book is clearly written and very accessible. A valuable addition to most libraries.
Eric Hinsdale, Trinity Univ. Lib., San Antonio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671754602
ISBN-13: 978-0671754600
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
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Barbara

From Darwin to the 21st century courtroom, the justifications for racism.

September 21, 2017

Format: Hardcover

I read this book as an offshoot from reading about the history of slavery. Pat Shipman has done amazing research, but it's a deep and complex book. Much of the book is devoted to bios of the men who guided the acceptance of racism in America.
She begins with Darwin, winds her way through eugenics to Hitler, and winds up at the frightening contribution of genome sequencing to the legal system.
If you are doing research of any sort on racism or if you just want to tunnel into the subject in deep detail this is a book for you. It is not a simple unraveling of the problem with clear conclusions. It's a long and rocky road, and a very complicated book.

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sam

Well written, thoughtful and comprehensive

May 27, 2000

Format: Hardcover

Shipman begins her book with Darwin and reflects on his struggles in presenting "The Origin of the Species" as he understood the controversy it would unleash. It is remarkable that the controversy has not abated in over a hundred years, but has instead evolved as delineated in the book. Shipman's work should be required reading for students in a variety of disciplines to give them the tools to defend against the henchmen of pseudoscience such as Rushton and Kevin MacDonald. Shipman reflects on the complexities of evolution and of human differences while making it clear that the human experience is diverse, and the use of science to support racism is not good science by any measure. This book is need badly in an updated version to uncover the flawed arguments of the newly prominent racists who are sheltered by academia.

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August 2, 1999

Format: Hardcover

Alas a writer who acknowledges that evolution implies racism and selection of the superior race. Politicians have been trying to suppress this, but they will fail in the end, as evolution wins. You cannot stop nature.

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