{"id":19531,"date":"2012-01-04T04:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19531"},"modified":"2013-02-09T03:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T03:51:22","slug":"until-darwin-science-human-variety-and-the-origins-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19531","title":{"rendered":"Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pickering & Chatto Publishers<\/a>
\n2010
\n224 pages
\n234 x 156 mm
\nHardback ISBN: 978 1 84893 100 8
\nE-book ISBN: 978 1 84893 101 5<\/p>\n

B. Ricardo Brown<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
\nPratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Until the publication of Charles Darwin\u2019s<\/a> On the Origin of Species<\/a><\/em>, the prevailing theory on \u2018the species question\u2019 was that humans were made up of five separate species, created at different times and in different places. This view\u2014known as the \u2018polygenic theory<\/a>\u2019\u2014was particularly favoured by naturalists of the early nineteenth-century ‘American School’ as it provided a scientific justification for slavery. Darwin\u2019s Origin<\/em> demolished this view.
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\nThis work fills a gap in recent studies on the history of race and science. Focusing on both the classification systems of human variety and the development of science as the arbiter of truth, Brown looks at the rise of the emerging sciences of life and society\u2014biology and sociology\u2014as well as the debate surrounding slavery and abolition.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n