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Author Haller, John S., Jr., 1940-

Title Outcasts from evolution : scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859-1900 / John S. Haller, Jr
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1971]

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Description xv, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Attitudes of racial inferiority in nineteenth-century anthropometry -- The physician versus the Negro -- The species problem: the origin of man controversy -- Race and the concept of progress in nineteenth-century ethnology -- From biology to sociology: Spencer and his disciples -- Portraits of nineteenth-century academic thinking on race -- The politics of "natural" extinction
Analysis Black race
Race
United States Race relations
Negroes Biosocial aspects United States, 1859-1900
Notes Bibliographyp.211-222. _ Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 211-222
Notes Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1972
Subject African Americans -- Anthropometry.
Anthropology -- History.
Anthropology -- United States -- History.
Black race.
Black race -- Anthropology
Race.
African Continental Ancestry Group -- history.
African Continental Ancestry Group.
Anthropometry.
Biological Evolution.
Race Relations -- history.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
LC no. 71146007
ISBN 0252001648