Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
(Part of the Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science Series)
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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
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