Myth of Race Sussman Robert Wald
Myth of Race Sussman Robert Wald Biological races do not exist--and never have. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. This view is…
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Myth of Race Sussman Robert Wald
Biological races do not exist--and never have. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations.
In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today.The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable,