National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945

by Richard McMahon

Book Overview

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.

Contributors address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496225848
• ISBN13: 9781496225849
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"