| Description |
51 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
The race question in modern science / Unesco |
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Race question in modern science.
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| Contents |
General observations on racial prejudices and myths -- The myth of blood and of the inferiority of cross-breeds -- Colour prejudice: the Negro myth -- The Jewish myth -- The myth of "Aryan" or "Nordic" superiority |
| Summary |
Discusses development of racial prejudice from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, with some historical background to racism in the B.C. era; Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest; myths surrounding human miscegenation and conceptualisations of blood; the myth of biological basis for inferiority of races; racism as a social construct; anti-semitism; origin of the aryans and the doctrine of aryanism; aryanism, celticism and the alleged anglo-saxon type; argues that doctrines of racial superiority have played a large role in government policies and calls for the elimination of racial myths |
| Notes |
Unesco publication 891 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Race discrimination.
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Race.
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| LC no. |
54004709 |
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