The Science and Politics of Racial Research

By William H. Tucker

Book Overview

Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065603
• ISBN13: 9780252065606
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for eugenics information

I was a student of Dr. Tucker when I purchased this book for a course he taught in 1998. I did not realize then, as I do now, how important it is to understand how the eugenics movement in Germany and the U.S. had a profound effect on the involuntary sterilization of the mentally disabled. I believe the history of the eugenics movement must be reviewed in light of Tipper Gore's recommendations for changes in community mental health care through PACT programs which the National Aliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) is now proposing to state legislators. The PACT model is essentially a biomedical model, with specific social control features, deciding the fate of people with severe mental illnesses. The eugenics movement resulting in the involuntary sterilization of the "feeble minded" for over a half century, is hauntingly resonant of this proposed plan.