{"product_id":"science-sexuality-and-race-in-the-united-states-and-australia-17801940-9780803295919","title":"Science Sexuality and Race in the United States","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constructs within settler colonialism in the US and Australia. Gregory D. Smithers historicizes the dissemination and application of scientific and social-scientific ideas within the process of nation building and shows how intellectual constructs of race and sexuality were mobilized to subdue Aboriginal peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A shining example of how to do comparative and transnational history.”—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“[Gregory D. Smithers] combines a very ambitious synthesis of existing scholarship with original research into primary sources. This book could have a profound impact upon scholarly thinking in relevant fields.”—Ann McGrath, author of \u003ci\u003eIllicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A keen critique of the impossible logic of racism in two major settler societies anxious to strengthen their sense of nationhood. . . . Readers will be fully convinced of the key importance of whiteness in both these societies, and of the science that bolstered it.”—Philippa Levine, author of \u003ci\u003eThe British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note about Terminology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. On the Importance of Good Breeding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Debating Race and the Meaning of Whiteness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Eliminating the \"Dubious Hyphen between Savagery and Civilization”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Racial Discourse in the United States and Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Missionaries, Settlers, Cherokees, and African Americans, 1780s–1850s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Missionaries, Settlers, and Australian Aborigines, 1780s–1850s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. The Evolution of an American Race, 1860s–1890s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Evolution of White Australia, 1860–1890\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. The “Science” of Human Breeding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. “Breeding out the Colour”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405301260631,"sku":"9780803295919","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803295919.jpg?v=1730489623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-sexuality-and-race-in-the-united-states-and-australia-17801940-9780803295919","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}