Race and the Making of American Political Science

by Jessica Blatt

Book Overview

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812225090
• ISBN13: 9780812225099
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"