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Race and Science : The race question in modern science

Unesco (publ.); Juan Comas; Kenneth Little; Michel Leiris; Harry L. Shapiro; Claude Lévi-Strauss; L. C. Dunn; G. M. Morant; Arnold M. Rose; Otto Klineberg; Marie Jahoda

Unesco (publ.); Juan Comas; Kenneth Little; Michel Leiris; Harry L. Shapiro; Claude Lévi-Strauss; L. C. Dunn; G. M. Morant; Arnold M. Rose; Otto Klineberg; Marie Jahoda;

Race and Science : The race question in modern science

Columbia University Press, 1969, 506 pages

ISBN 0231086318, 9780231086318

topics: |  sociology | race


eleven essays on race by social scientists and biologists from
Unesco's program on Race and Culture.

Contents

PART ONE
RACIAL MYTHS, by Juan Comas	13
	General observations on racial prejudices and myths	13
	The myth of blood and of the inferiority of crossbreeds	19
	Colour prejudice: the Negro myth	26
	The Jewish myth	33
	The myth of 'Aryan' or 'Nordic' superiority	38
	Conclusion	52
	Bibliography	55
RACE AND SOCIETY, by Kenneth Little	57
	Introduction	57
	The South African case	67
	The Brazilian and Hawaiian cases	76
	The British case	85
	Conclusion	101
	Bibliography	106
THE JEWISH PEOPLE: A BIOLOGICAL HISTORY by Harry L. Shapiro	107
	The traces of the past	107
	The genesis of the Jews	112
	The Chosen People	122
	The Promised Land	129
	The Diaspora	142
	In the fullness of time	157
	Bibliography	178
RACE AND CULTURE, by Michel Leiris	181
	Scope and concept of 'race'	184
	Man and his cultures	193
	There is no inborn racial aversion	214
	Bibliography	217
RACE AND HISTORY, by Claude Lévi-Strauss	219
	Race and culture	219
	The diversity of cultures	221
	The ethnocentric attitude	224
	Archaic and primitive cultures	228
	The idea of progress	231
	'Stationary' and 'cumulative' history	235
	The place of Western civilization	240
	Chance and civilization	243
	Collaboration between cultures	250
	The counter-currents of progress	255
	Bibliography	258
PART TWO
RACE AND BIOLOGY, by L. C. Dunn	263
	Introduction	263
	What is race?	269
	Heredity and environment	273
	The origin of biological differences	278
	How races form	281
	A biologist's view of race	286
	Race separation and race fusion	294
	Bibliography	299
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RACIAL DIFFERENCES by G. M. Morant	301
	Introduction	301
	The literary discussion of differences between groups of people	304
	Definition of the problem	310
	Racial differences in body characters	313
	Racial differences in mental characters	328
	The significance of racial differences	338
RACE MIXTURE, by Harry L. Shapiro	343
	Introduction	343
	Numbers and distribution	348
	Race mixture--a modern problem	358
	Biological considerations	364
	Down to cases	369
	Final remarks	386
	Bibliography	389
	PART THREE
THE ROOTS OF PREJUDICE, by Arnold M. Rose	393
	Introduction	393
	Personal advantage as a cause of prejudice	394
	Ignorance of other groups of people as a cause of prejudice	397
	Racism, or the 'superiority complex', as a cause of prejudice	399
	Ignorance of the costs of prejudice as a source of prejudice	404
	The transmission of prejudice to children	409
	The psychology of prejudice	411
	Prejudice as a warping of the personality	417
	Conclusion	419
RACE AND PSYCHOLOGY, by Otto Klineberg	423
	Introduction	423
	Social and cultural factors	425
	Effects of changes in the environment	431
	Some related problems	439
RACE RELATIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH by Marie Jahoda	453
	Introduction	453
	The psychological function of prejudice	455
	The psycho-genetic origin of prejudice	466
	Prejudice and mental health	473
	Is prejudice inevitable?	480
	Bibliography	490
APPENDIX
Action by Unesco	493
Statement of 1950	496
Statement of 1951	502


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009