作品情報

人種研究の歴史を、科学と政治の結びつきとして読み直す。

科学的な客観性の名で語られた人種差の議論を、長期的な歴史の中に置き直して検証する。研究が社会的・政治的な不平等の正当化に使われてきた経緯を、具体的な事例でたどる。

書籍情報

出版社

Univ of Illinois Pr

発売日

1994-12-01

ページ数

384ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm

ISBN-13

9780252020995

ISBN-10

0252020995

価格

18870 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/History/Americas/United States

Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate differences in ability between groups. William Tucker shows how, for more than a century, scientific investigations of supposedly innate differences in ability between races have been used to rationalize social and political inequality as the unavoidable consequence of natural differences. Tucker structures his work chronologically, with each chapter describing how research on genetic difference was used in a particular era to support a particular political agenda. He begins with the use of science to support slavery in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with the effects of Jensenism in the 1970s. Highlights include one chapter describing a little-known but concerted attempt by a group of scientists to overturn the Brown v. Board of Education decision on the basis of "expert testimony" about racial differences, and another that presents a review of the eugenics movement in the twentieth century. The author also considers how to balance the rights and responsibilities of scientists, concluding that one generally neglected method is to strengthen the rights of research subjects.

William H. Tucker is an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.

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