Title Measuring manhood : race and the science of masculinity, 1830-1934 / Melissa N. Stein

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (354 pages) Contents Introduction: Making Race, Marking Difference -- 1. "Races of Men" : Ethnology in Antebellum America -- 2. An "Equal Beard" for "Equal Voting" : Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption -- 3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives : Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology -- 4. Unsexing the Race : Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science -- 5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching Campaign -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Charting Racial Science : Data and Methodology Summary "From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start. Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances. She tells of scientific 'experts' who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference. Stein examines the works of scientists and scholars from medicine, biology, ethnology, and other fields to trace how their conclusions about human difference did no less than to legitimize sociopolitical hierarchy in the United States. Covering a wide range of historical actors from Samuel Morton, the infamous collector and measurer of skulls in the 1830s, to NAACP leader and antilynching activist Walter White in the 1930s, this book reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making--and unmaking--of race"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Racism -- United States -- History Masculinity -- United States -- History Sexism -- United States -- History Individual differences -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Individual differences -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Sociobiology -- United States -- History Individuality. Masculinity -- history Racism -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Individuality Sexism -- history Social Conditions -- history SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. SCIENCE -- History. MEDICAL -- History. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Individuality Masculinity Race relations Racism Science -- Social aspects Sexism Social conditions Sociobiology SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515 United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140516 United States Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781452944685 1452944687

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