Tag: Charles Darwin

  • Retrospection: Agassiz’s Expeditions in Brazil The Harvard Crimson 2016-04-21 Michelle Y. Raji Louis Rodolphe Agassiz But for Agassiz, the trip to Brazil was about more than science. Not only was evolution—a process not immediately observable to the human eye—deeply antithetical to Agassiz’s staunch empiricism, evolution was profoundly at odds with his perceived world order. Three…

  • Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 5, Number 2 (October, 1994) pages 243-266 Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One of the most important insights developed in the fields of lesbian and gay history and the history of sexuality has been the notion…

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences Routledge 2010-06-23 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65278-0 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-88125-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-84498-4 Edward Beasley, Associate Professor of History San Diego State University In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ‘races’ familiar to…

  • Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010 224 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978 1 84893 100 8 E-book ISBN: 978 1 84893 101 5 B. Ricardo Brown, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York Until the publication of Charles Darwin’s On…

  • From the Curse of Ham to the Curse of Nature The British Journal for the History of Science Volume 40, Issue 3 (2007) pages 367-388 DOI: 10.1017/S0007087407009788 Robert Kenny, ARC Research Fellow The Australian Centre, School of Historical Studies La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia This paper examines the debate engendered in ethnological and anthropological circles…

  • A tale of two scholars: The Darwin debate at Harvard Harvard Gazette 2007-05-19 Louis Agassiz was a scientist with a blind spot—he rejected the theory of evolution Few people have left a more indelible imprint on Harvard than Louis Agassiz. An ambitious institution-builder and fundraiser as well as one of the most renowned scientists of…

  • The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…