The Myth of Human Races

By Alain F. Corcos

The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate "races" of humanity exist. These protagonists of race theory have based their flawed research on one or more of five specious assumptions:
- humanity can be classified into groups using identifiable physical characteristics,
- human characteristics are transmitted "through the blood,"
- distinct human physical characteristics are inherited together,
- physical features can be linked to human behavior,
- human groups or "races" are by their very nature unequal and, therefore, they can be ranked in order of intellectual, moral, and cultural superiority.
The Myth of Human Races systematically dispels these fallacies and unravels the web of flawed research that has been woven to demonstrate the superiority of one group of people over another.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870134396
• ISBN13: 9780870134395
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

I enjoyed this book.

However too many people are ignorant to the fact that there is no such thing as race and still believe that there is a race of Blacks, Whites, and others. And even when you explain that this is not truth they have been so propagandized by mass media they will refuse to read books like this. I am sick of stupid Black and White people who only take the nightly news as gospel.