Superior: The Return of Race Science

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Superior: The Return of Race Science

2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) Â· Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) Â· Best Science and Technology Books from 2019â€ (Library Journal)

An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.

Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.

After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murrayâ€™s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.

If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between â€œracesâ€â€”to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptionsâ€”stubbornly persists.

At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race scienceâ€”and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.

Country	USA
Author	Angela Saini
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780807076941
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Beacon Press
Manufacturer	Beacon Press
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2019-05-21
Publisher	Beacon Press
ReleaseDate	2019-05-21
Studio	Beacon Press

Superior: The Return of Race Science

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