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Cambridge University Press The Retreat of Scientific Racism - Cambridge University Press

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This landmark historical study traces how scientific racism was dismantled in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when scholars abandoned biological explanations for racial differences in favour of cultural understanding. Professor Barkan examines the sociology of knowledge behind this intellectual transformation, revealing how outsiders including women, Jews, and leftist academics challenged prevailing racial theories. By analysing the work of leading biologists and anthropologists of the era, the book demonstrates the profound shift in racial ideology and explores its lasting impact on modern race relations. A vital resource for understanding how scientific authority was redirected away from racism, this study illuminates the complex social forces that reshaped biological and anthropological thinking during the interwar period.

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Cambridge University Press publication examining the refutation of scientific racism between the World Wars.

Analyses work by leading biologists and anthropologists who fundamentally challenged racial difference theories.

Explores how women, Jews, and leftist scholars contributed to dismantling racist ideologies in academia.

Examines the sociology of knowledge and how scientific authority shifted away from biological racism.

Documents the transformation from biological to cultural explanations of human differences in modern thought.

Considers the social significance of this intellectual change on contemporary race relations and policy.

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paperback
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Amazon UK
Release Date
16 September 1993
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02 February 2007

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