The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism - Hardcover

Chase, Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394480457 ISBN 13: 9780394480459

Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random, 1977

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive account of scientific racism—its origins in the Industrial Revolution, its theorists, its propagandists, and its destructive effects on past and present American life. The Legacy of Malthus is at one a narrative history and a thorough dissection of the pseudoscientific “proofs” that particular social groups—in various times and places: the poor and the middle classes, the Jews, the Irish, the Italians, the blacks, and the poor southern whites—are genetically inferior. Above all, this book is an awesomely documented revelation of the many sensitive areas of American life today –from child care to public health—where the malignant doctrines of scientific racism influence public policy. Meticulously and passionately, Chase demonstrates the extent to which the pseudoscientific myths that shaped past horrors find voice today in the theories of influential scientists, educators, and governmental decision-makers. –From inside dust jacket.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394480457
• ISBN 13: 9780394480459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 686