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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Race science"”.
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
… of the pathological, amorphous 'savage lower races. Non-white degeneration in Brazil, especially amongst its substantial mixed-race populace, was thus understood to be a progressive, equilibrating force of Evolution. For close to a century Euclides da Cunha's Os Sert\xf5es has been treated as …
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Blood groups and the rise of human genetics in mid-twentieth century Britain
… Cambridge Galton Serum Unit- especially Robert Race and Arthur Mourant- implemented this vision, the dissertation shows, using the arrangements for large-scale blood transfusion set up early in the Second World War. In 1946, Mourant became director of the Blood Group Reference Laboratory and …
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Museums and the construction of race ideologies: the case of natural history and ethnographic museums in South Africa
… museum collected these human remains for race 'science' under politically motivated circumstances to feed to the idea that black 'inferiority' and white 'superiority' as a new global socio-political order. The evidence of diverse materials (photographs, manuscript letters etc) that I have …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… and early nineteenth centuries, the construct of race became fixed in the collective consciousness of Europeans, in large part due to the efforts of Enlightenment-age scientists who sought to classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify both slavery and …
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Amalgamated Anatomies and Crossbred Cultures: Biological Hybridity in British Colonial Fiction
… I pay particular attention to the biological sciences of hybridism within the empire. Whether in studies of colonial plants grafted onto domestic species or of foreign blood entering British lineages, Victorian natural sciences defined the boundaries of national identity and what it meant to …