Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century

by David J DePew, John P. Jackson, David Depew

Book Overview

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms.

The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367358581
• ISBN13: 9780367358587
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages