Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America

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Contents Introduction Hamilton Cravens .........................................................................1 Slavery in the Election of 1800 Edward J. Larson .........................................................................17 From Kin to Intruder: Cherokee Legal Attitudes toward People of African Descent in the Nineteenth Century Fay A. Yarbrough.........................................................................32 The Last Repatriationist: The Career of Earnest Sevier Cox John P. Jackson, Jr & Andrew S. Winston...................................58 Mongrels and Hybrids: The Problem of “Race” in the Botanical World Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis............................................................81 The Roman Campaign of ’53 to ’55: The Dunn Family among a Jewish Community Melinda Gormley ........................................................................95 Changes in Scientific Opinion on Race Mixing: The Impact of the Modern Synthesis Paul Farber ................................................................................130 Race, IQ, and Politics in Twentieth-Century America Hamilton Cravens .....................................................................152 Robert Coles and the Political Culture of the Second Reconstruction Ben Keppel .................................................................................185 Genomics, Genetic Identity, and the Refiguration of “Race” Michael G. Kenny ......................................................................213 Acknowledgments................................................................................228 Contributors’ Notes..............................................................................229 Index ......................................................................................................231 ...