Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948Amir Teicher
The history of racial thinking is a history of assumptions and assertions about identity and difference. Racial theory has no particular method of its own. Thus, racial history is also a history of the appropriation and integration of various scientific disciplines: biology, anatomy, medicine, stati...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 481-483 |
| Review of: | Social Mendelism (Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2020) (Hart, Mitchell B.)
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| Summary: | The history of racial thinking is a history of assumptions and assertions about identity and difference. Racial theory has no particular method of its own. Thus, racial history is also a history of the appropriation and integration of various scientific disciplines: biology, anatomy, medicine, statistics, physical anthropology. Over the course of the nineteenth century it was anthropology and medicine that emerged as the leading fields of research into racial matters. Researchers studied the shapes and sizes of human heads, eye color and hair texture, the shapes of noses, the concavity or convexity of chests, and any other anatomical trait they believed might answer questions generated about race. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcab051 |