{"product_id":"race-unmasked-9780231168755","title":"Race Unmasked","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e revisits the origins of widespread beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age. Michael Yudell reveals how genetics and related disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can a concept that has been so debunked as a biological reality keep rising from the dead? \u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e helps answer this by illustrating the troubling story of the sustained, strained, and stained history of the concept of race in scientific thought and practice. -- David Rosner, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eWe have needed a reassessment and an intelligent book on how racial categorizing grows within twentieth- and twenty-first-century science without using the simple labels of 'racism' or 'racist.' \u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific guide to the often invisible, intertwined terrain of science and politics around race. Re-reading the past with an eye toward nuance and clarity, Michael Yudell understands how 'race' comes to be unintentionally hidden yet still can be uncovered and critiqued. This book should find its way into classrooms across the curriculum. -- Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College, author of \u003ci\u003eExamining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRace matters. All over the world we sort each other into groups by skin color, hair texture, and other physical characteristics, yet as Michael Yudell reminds us in this masterful, engaging, and important book, we barely have a clue about the biological basis for what we are doing.\u003ci\u003e Race Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e is just the right remedy for those seeking to better understand the horrors and wrongs of racism. -- Arthur L. Caplan, New York University Langone Medical Center\u003cbr\u003eMichael Yudell has given us a fascinating and perceptive study of 'man's most dangerous myth.' This insightful book on race should be read widely by anyone concerned with the multiple uses, misuses, tangled history, and persistent confusions over this vexed and potent concept. -- Keith Wailoo, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eA challenging, well-researched work that clearly shows the interconnectedness of scientific and social thought. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eA detailed history of the concept of race and its evolution throughout the 20th century. * Library Journal (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eThis intensely deliberative book unearths many subtle and not-so-subtle examples of this complex historic relationship. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eYudell, a historian of public health, argues that the complicated interaction of science and race visible in the eugenics movement is still playing out. -- Bryan Bello * Science News *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e is worth reading.... Yudell shows clearly the interplay between science, society, and the changing definitions of race that were central to 20th-century history. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA timely, readable and engaging contribution to the growing literature on race and science. -- Lundy Braun * Social History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked \u003c\/i\u003eproves itself of enormous importance not only for those who wish to understand the evolution of race as a concept but also for those studying the place of science in American culture. * American Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAn interesting, thorough, and informative review of the early history of eugenics.... well written and highly readable. * BioScience *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e] is an important, thought-provoking book and deserves to be widely read by people in all disciplines, but especially by the next generation of geneticists who might need to more fully understand the deep historical roots of their discipline. -- John B. Jenkins * The Quarterly Review of Biology *\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging book is a must-read for nurses, physicians, scientists, academics, and all who continue to try to understand diversity in our society today. -- Barbara Mann Wall * Nursing History Revew *\u003cbr\u003eThis impressive book proceeds to challenge the standard narrative of race science's postwar decline and fall.... Yudell follows in the footsteps of historians such as Richard Hofstadter and Charles E. Rosenberg—scholars who have uncovered the interdependence of biology and American social thought. -- Warwick Anderson * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003eA welcomed contribution to understanding the history of the present. -- Terence Keel * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eRace Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e] is an important achievement worthy of a wide readership. -- Gregory Michael Dorr * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003eA fine history of how biologists shaped thinking about race in America in the twentieth century and how social values and attitudes shaped the way biologists thought about race. -- Michael Root * Metascience *\u003cbr\u003eYudell fills a critical gap in scholarly discourse on the history of eugenics and race. -- W. Malcolm Byrnes * The Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by J. Craig Venter\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. A Eugenic Foundation\u003cbr\u003e2. Charles Davenport and the Biology of Blackness\u003cbr\u003e3. Eugenics in the Public's Eye\u003cbr\u003e4. The National Research Council and the Scientific Study of Race\u003cbr\u003e5. Coloring Race Difference\u003cbr\u003e6. Biology and the Problem of the Color Line\u003cbr\u003e7. Race and the Evolutionary Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e8. Consolidating the Race Concept in Biology\u003cbr\u003e9. Challenges to the Race Concept\u003cbr\u003e10. Naturalizing Racism: The Controversy Over Sociobiology\u003cbr\u003e11. Race in the Genomic Age\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Dobzhansky's Paradox and the Future of Racial Research\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400285004119,"sku":"9780231168755","price":23.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-unmasked-9780231168755","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}