Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900
進化論をめぐる19世紀の科学言説が、人種的優劣の説明へと転化していく過程を追う研究書。科学的な確信と公共政策の結びつきを検証し、差別観念が学問の内部から強化されていった構図を明らかにする。
作品情報
進化論が差別の理屈へ変わる瞬間を追う。
Southern Illinois University Press 版は248ページ。ダーウィン以後の科学者や社会思想家が抱いた人種的優越の観念をたどり、19世紀後半のアメリカで「科学」がどのように偏見を正当化したかを描く。
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当時の人種科学を理解するうえで重要な労作として受け止められている。史料の掘り下げが綿密で、科学と社会政策の接点を具体的に示す点に強みがある。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Southern Illinois Univ Pr
- 発売日
- 1996-01-02
- ページ数
- 232ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.78 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780809319824
- ISBN-10
- 0809319829
- 価格
- 5120 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/19th Century
In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species and the discovery in 1900 of Gregor Mendel’s experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr., shows the relationship between scientific "conviction" and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas and who sought to apply those ideas to comparative morality, health, and the physiognomy of nonwhite races. During this period, the natural and social scientists of the day not only accepted without question the genetic and cultural superiority of the Caucasian; they also asserted that the Caucasian race held a monopoly on evolutionary progress, arguing that "inferior races" were no more than evolutionary survivors doomed by their genetic legacy to remain outcasts from evolution. Hereditarians and evolutionists believed that "less fit" human races were perishing from the rigors of civilization’s struggle and competition. Indeed, racial inferiority lay at the very foundation of the evolutionary framework and, remaining there, rose to the pinnacle of "truth" with the myth of scientific certainty.
John S. Haller, Jr., is the author of Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790–1925, both available from Southern Illinois University Press. John S. Haller, Jr., is the author of Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790–1925, both available from Southern Illinois University Press.
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specifically detailed how the scientific basis for racism in the modern western world was established, and how it served to justify prejudice and discrimination toward non-white citizens. it was more than captivating to me; it was stunning. thank you so much dr. haller. it's people like you who keep me from hating the entire white race. ha, ha, ha, (kidding on the square). andy florez (mexican)
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This is one of the most influential books I have ever read. It delves into the extreme lengths some within the society will go to keep a false narrative alive to preserve their supremacy, enforce a policy, or manipulate public opinion. This book explores a justification for slavery, but has application to today's political obstruction.
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