Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

by Paul Lawrence Farber

Book Overview

This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against miscegenation, or race mixing, espousing the common opinion that it would produce biologically dysfunctional offspring. By the 1960s the scientific community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801898137
• ISBN13: 9780801898136
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary