In this Book

summary

The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate "races" of humanity exist. These protagonists of race theory have based their flawed research on one or more of five specious assumptions:  
 - humanity can be classified into groups using identifiable physical characteristics  - human characteristics are transmitted "through the blood,"  - distinct human physical characteristics are inherited together, - physical features can be linked to human behavior, - human groups or "races" are by their very nature unequal and, therefore, they can be ranked in order of intellectual, moral, and cultural superiority.  
     The Myth of Human Races systematically dispels these fallacies and unravels the web of flawed research that has been woven to demonstrate the superiority of one group of people over another.  
 

Table of Contents

restricted access Download Full Book
  1. Contents
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. A Word to the Reader
  2. pp. xiii-xvi
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-6
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Part One: Introduction
  1. 1. Race is a Slippery Word
  2. pp. 9-14
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 2. Race Classification: An Impossible Task
  2. pp. 15-22
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 3. Skulls, Women, and Savages: The Art of Craniology
  2. pp. 23-32
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 4. Full Blood, Half-Blood, and Tainted Blood
  2. pp. 33-44
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 5. Racial Traits: More Fiction Than Fact
  2. pp. 45-48
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 6. You Cannot Judge a Book by its Cover
  2. pp. 49-60
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Part Two: Introduction
  2. pp. 61-64
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 7. Did We Evolve From Apes, and If So, from How Many?
  2. pp. 65-70
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 8. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fittest of Us All?
  2. pp. 71-78
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 9. Adaptive or not Adaptive, That is the Question
  2. pp. 79-82
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 10. Why Different Skin Colors?
  2. pp. 83-90
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 11. Why Different Shapes of Noses? Why So Much or So Little Hair on the Body or the Head?
  2. pp. 91-96
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 12. Why Different Color of Eye and Hair?
  2. pp. 97-102
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 13. Race: Geneticists Led Astray
  2. pp. 103-110
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 14. Race and IQ: A Pseudo-Problem
  2. pp. 111-124
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 15. Race and Disease: Another Pseudo-Problem
  2. pp. 125-132
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 16. How The U.S. Government Classifies Its Citizens: A Real Problem
  2. pp. 133-138
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Part Three: Introduction
  2. pp. 139-141
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 17. Of Species and Races: A Modern View
  2. pp. 141-148
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 18. Each One of Us Is Unique
  2. pp. 149-154
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 19. Of Genes and Chromosomes: No One is Like You
  2. pp. 155-162
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 20. Myths About Ancestry
  2. pp. 163-168
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 21. Of DNA and Proteins, or No One is Like You
  2. pp. 169-174
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 22. Except for A Very Few of Us, We Are All Colored
  2. pp. 175-178
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 23. Can We Change Our Skin Color?
  2. pp. 179-186
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 24. Nothing Under the Sun Is Just Black or White
  2. pp. 187-192
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 25. Genes and Skin Color: The More the Merrier
  2. pp. 193-200
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Concluding Thoughts
  2. pp. 201-206
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 207-210
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 211-214
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.