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'This book's primary subject is a particular way of thinking and talking about race: the scientific way. But The Race Gallery 's broader theme is that of how we think and talk about race in general. We do so at inordinate length, yet with extreme anxiety: we feel that the subject is covered by a taboo, but we don't know exactly what the rules of the taboo are. It seems important, if not obligatory, to discuss cultural differences, but dangerous even to mention physical differences. At the same time that we feel compelled to do it, we are profoundly uncertain about how to think about race.' - The Race Gallery The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science was published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 1995, and in paperback by Vintage in 1996. Copyright Marek Kohn; artwork copyright Random House. "Masterly ... elegant, timely and devastating ... A book that is unafraid of looking hard at tough questions ... and succeeds brilliantly" - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian, Paperback Pick of the Week "Masterly ... elegant, timely and devastating ... A book that is unafraid of looking hard at tough questions ... and succeeds brilliantly" - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian, Paperback Pick of the Week "Learned, well-written and fresh" - Matt Ridley, Sunday Telegraph "Fair-minded, compact and luminous ... Cool, clear and extremely timely" - Eric Korn, The Guardian "Invaluable" - Tom Nairn, London Review of Books
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Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 1995
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Genetics and human anthropology were often deeply racist disciplines before World War II; hierarchies of intelligence and ability among races were drawn up, and it was thought that the unfit should be weeded out of the population. These ideas were not the sole property of Nazi Germany, but were endorsed widely in the USA and Europe. The Holocaust and other massacres in the name of racial purity buried such notions for decades, but the author shows here how they are returning in the work of often well-meaning scientists. Exploiting as they do anxieties about race, social breakdown and nationalism, these ideas are increasingly less marginal. This book analyzes such ideas and their defenders in a powerful expose of resurgent racialism in science. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003148807
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