Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900

Haller, John S.

ISBN 10: 007025625X / ISBN 13: 9780070256255

Published by McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, USA, 1975

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, USA
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007025625X
• ISBN 13: 9780070256255
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book shows how the concept of the racial inferiority of blacks became institutionalized in the most respectable American scientific circles in the post-Civil War period. Ironically, the war that freed the slaves also contributed to the spread of ideas of racial inferiority, for scientists used anthropometric examinations carried out during the war on black soldiers and subsequent reports by southern physicians on the emancipated population to develop their theories.

About the Author

John S. Haller, Jr., is the author of Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825–1939 and Farmcarts to Fords: A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790–1925, both available from Southern Illinois University Press.