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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Racial Science"”.
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All that glitters is not gold: authenticity and historical accuracy in representations of Mapungubwe
… as well as the nationalist ideologies and racial science which was attributed to it in the early 20th Century. In addition to the selection of representations, a history of the re(discovery) and discoveries of Mapungubwe is also discussed. Ultimately, it does not matter if representations …
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Rebuilding the Rainbow Bridge: A study of the historical development of Nordicism and its evolving relationship with Modernity
… periods. This later developed into a powerful racial fantasy, through fusion with the emerging field of racial science and eugenics. ‘Rebuilding the Rainbow Bridge’ attempts to shed fresh light on the nature and evolution of Nordicism and its relationship with modernity by examining it as a …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… to the ever-changing cultural, social, and racial landscapes before them. It places this local history in the wider context of the North American continent and the Atlantic World—the space within which these people actually lived. In so doing, it shows that New Orleans, and its free colored …
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Letters of stone
… West Africa, providing the foundation for Nazi racial science; through the ways in which a mixture of nationalism and eugenics resulted in Jews being refused entry to South Africa and other countries in the 1930s; and via disturbing discoveries concerning the discipline of Volkekunde (Ethnology) …