Science, race, and ethnicity : readings from Isis and Osiris / edited by John P. Jackson, Jr.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2002], ©2002.

452 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Alfred Russel Wallace, the origin of man, and spiritualism / Malcolm Jay Kottler -- William Charles Wells and the races of man / Kentwood D. Wells -- The Duke of Argyll, evolutionary anthropology and the art of scientific controversy / Neal C. Gillespie -- Racial science, social science, and the politics of Jewish assimilation / Mitchell B. Hart -- The solvency of metaphysics: the debate over racial science and moral philosophy in France, 1890-1919 / Jennifer Michael Hecht -- The American scientist as social activist: Franz Boas, Burt G. Wilder, and the cause of racial justice, 1900-1915 / Edward H. Beardsley -- Blind law and powerless science: the American Jewish congress, the NAACP, and the scientific case against discrimination, 1945-1950 / John P. Jackson, Jr. -- German eugenics between science and politics / Peter Weingart -- The race hygiene movement in Germany ; Wilhelm Schallmayer and the logic of German eugenics / Sheila Faith Weiss -- Anthropological institutions in nineteenth-century France / Elizabeth Williams -- The eugenics record office at Cold Spring Harbor, 1910-1940: an essay in institutional history / Garland E. Allen -- It may be truth, but it is not evidence: Paul Du Chaillu and the legitimation of evidence in the field sciences / Stuart McCook -- Francis La Flesche: the American Indian as anthropologist /Joan Mark -- Imperialism, colonial identity, and race in Algeria, 1830-1870: the role of the French medical corps / Patricia M.E. Lorcin -- Racism and medical science in South Africa's Cape colony in the mid- to late nineteenth century / Harriet Deacon -- Debating racial science in wartime Japan / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.

Includes bibliographical references and index.