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.
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