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Book Review: Changing Concepts Of Race In Britain And The United States Between The World Wars.
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....ial groups we identify as races. Despite its history of oppression and genocide, the scientific defense of racial inequality demonstrates a disturbing persistence. Murphy Ballen’s study of scientific racism in Great Britain and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s appropriately deals not with its demise but with .... Part 2 of Paper
....ntific communities. On both sides of the Atlantic, physical anthropology and racial taxonomy lost ground to the new social and cultural anthropology. This shift away from biological determinism was significant, but Ballen too readily equates environmentalism and cultural relativism with a defense of racial equality. (p. 34) In the British case, as Henrika Kuklik has recently demonstrated, social anthropology suited a conservative colonial policy of indirect rule (p.55). Ballen is on firmer groun.... |
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