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Overview"Recent scholarship has argued that ""race"" is a fairly recent concept in Western thought and arose concurrently with modern science. Yet, in recent decades, science has been a powerful tool employed against racialist thinking. How is it that science has been a factor for both the rise of racialist thinking and its demise? This volume of essays, drawn from the journals Isis and Osiris, demonstrates that race and political and social ideologies have interacted in complex and unexpected ways." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John P. Jackson, Jr.Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 1.80cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.60cm Weight: 0.936kg ISBN: 9780226389349ISBN 10: 0226389340 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 01 November 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJohn P. Jackson Jr. is an instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the author of Social Scientists for Social Justice: Making the Case Against Segregation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |