Darwinism, Democracy, and Race

American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century

John Jackson, David Depew (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-35858-7 (ISBN)

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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms.

The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book’s focal figures--the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas’s racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin.

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science.

John P. Jackson is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, Charles Center for Academic Excellence, College of William and Mary, USA David J. Depew is Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies and POROI (Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry) at the University of Iowa, USA

Introduction: In the Footsteps of Franz Boas

Chapter II: Franz Boas and the Argument From Presumption

Chapter III: Demarcating Anthropology: The Boundary Work of Alfred Kroeber

Chapter IV: Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Argument from Definition

Chapter V: Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Argument from Definition

Chapter VI: A Kairos Moment Unmet and Met: The Controversy Over Carlton Coon’s The Origin of Races

Epilogue: The Roots of the Sociobiology Controversy, the Infirmities of Evolutionary Psychology, and the Unity of Anthropology

Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	History and Philosophy of Biology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-35858-1 / 0367358581
ISBN-13	978-0-367-35858-7 / 9780367358587
Zustand	Neuware