Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Science And Society)

Ordered this book for a sociology class I will be taking in the fall. I received the book in a timely manner as stated and it was in great condition. This book looks interesting and I am hopeful it will extend into the classroom.

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I have been teaching the history of science and racism for many years and I continue to be impressed with the work Jackson and Weidman have done in this volume. It is a very nuanced approach which follows the tortuous course of the clash of ideas. Very fine intellectual history and a real achievement to bring to a traditionally styled "textbook." I have used plenty of textbooks, this one is in a class of its own.

The authors have done a wonderful job of organizing an intellectual history with succinct narratives and career profiles of scholars and movements that won the Western world, in approximately two centuries, to a naturalistic view of humanity. Now liberated from superstitions that all men are created in the image of God (my inference, not the authors'), the elite now led nations into new pathways of eugenics, social Darwinism, master-race concepts, and unjust social policies chronicled by the authors. It is very useful to see the links and review the history compactly presented in this book.