ISBN:
9781452944685
,
1452944687
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1830-1934
;
Rassismus
;
Männlichkeit
;
Sexismus
;
Soziobiologie
;
Sociobiology History
;
Science Social aspects
;
History
;
Individual differences Political aspects
;
History
;
Individual differences Social aspects
;
History
;
Sexism History
;
Masculinity History
;
Racism History
;
MEDICAL / History
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SCIENCE / History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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USA
;
United States Social conditions 1918-1932
;
United States Social conditions 1865-1918
;
United States Race relations
;
History
Abstract:
"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start. Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances. She tells of scientific 'experts' who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference. Stein examines the works of scientists and scholars from medicine, biology, ethnology, and other fields to trace how their conclusions about human difference did no less than to legitimize sociopolitical hierarchy in the United States. Covering a wide range of historical actors from Samuel Morton, the infamous collector and measurer of skulls in the 1830s, to NAACP leader and antilynching activist Walter White in the 1930s, this book reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making--and unmaking--of race"--...
URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42979
