The Racial Economy Of Science

Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253115531

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The "Racial" Economy of Science by Sandra Harding Pdf

"The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding... has also created a useful text for diverse classroom settings." -- Library Journal "A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended." -- Choice "This is an excellent collection of essays that should prove useful in a wide range of STS courses." -- Science, Technology, and Society "... important and provocative... "Â -- The Women's Review of Books "The timeliness and utility of this large interdisciplinary reader on the relation of Western science to other cultures and to world history can hardly be overemphasized. It provides a tremendous resource for teaching and for research... "Â -- Ethics "Excellent." -- The Reader's Review "Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She has assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely." -- Darlene Clark Hine These authors dispute science's legitimation of culturally approved definitions of race difference -- including craniology and the measurement of IQ, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and the dependence of Third World research on First World agendas.

Author : Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469636412

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The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Pdf

In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on the anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, physicians, and other experts who collaborated across borders from the Mexican Revolution through World War II, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals on both sides of the Rio Grande forged shared networks in which they discussed indigenous peoples and other ethnic minorities. In doing so, Rosemblatt argues, they refashioned race as a scientific category and consolidated their influence within their respective national policy circles. Postrevolutionary Mexican experts aimed to transform their country into a modern secular state with a dynamic economy, and central to this endeavor was learning how to "manage" racial difference and social welfare. The same concern animated U.S. New Deal policies toward Native Americans. The scientists' border-crossing conceptions of modernity, race, evolution, and pluralism were not simple one-way impositions or appropriations, and they had significant effects. In the United States, the resulting approaches to the management of Native American affairs later shaped policies toward immigrants and black Americans, while in Mexico, officials rejected policy prescriptions they associated with U.S. intellectual imperialism and racial segregation.

Author : John P. Jackson,Nadine M. Weidman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813537363

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Race, Racism, and Science by John P. Jackson,Nadine M. Weidman Pdf

Since the eighteenth century when natural historians created the idea of distinct racial categories, scientific findings on race have been a double-edged sword. For some antiracists, science holds the promise of one day providing indisputable evidence to help eradicate racism. On the other hand, science has been enlisted to promote racist beliefs ranging from a justification of slavery in the eighteenth century to the infamous twentieth-century book, The Bell Curve, whose authors argued that racial differences in intelligence resulted in lower test scores for African Americans. This well-organized, readable textbook takes the reader through a chronological account of how and why racial categories were created and how the study of "race" evolved in multiple academic disciplines, including genetics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. In a bibliographic essay at the conclusion of each of the book's seven sections, the authors recommend primary texts that will further the reader's understanding of each topic. Heavily illustrated and enlivened with sidebar biographies, this text is ideal for classroom use.

Author : Melvin Leiman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459610507

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The Political Economy of Racism by Melvin Leiman Pdf

An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States.'' - Science & Society Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it.

Author : W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0415927374

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An American Health Dilemma: Race, medicine, and health care in the United States 1900-2000 by W. Michael Byrd,Linda A. Clayton Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Author : Jonathan Marks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745689210

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Is Science Racist? by Jonathan Marks Pdf

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. The eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. As Marks argues, race can only be grasped through the humanities: historically, experientially, politically. This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.

Author : David M. Levy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472089056

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How the Dismal Science Got Its Name by David M. Levy Pdf

A shocking account of how economics became known as the dismal science

Author : Sandra Harding
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 0253211565

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Is Science Multicultural? by Sandra Harding Pdf

Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world

Author : Alison Hope Alkon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820343891

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Black, White, and Green by Alison Hope Alkon Pdf

Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to "vote with your fork" for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for food-system reform and are a shining example of a growing green economy where consumers can shop their way to social change. Black, White, and Green brings new energy to this topic by exploring dimensions of race and class as they relate to farmers markets and the green economy. With a focus on two Bay Area markets--one in the primarily white neighborhood of North Berkeley, and the other in largely black West Oakland--Alison Hope Alkon investigates the possibilities for social and environmental change embodied by farmers markets and the green economy. Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Alkon describes the meanings that farmers market managers, vendors, and consumers attribute to the buying and selling of local organic food, and the ways that those meanings are raced and classed. She mobilizes this research to understand how the green economy fosters visions of social change that are compatible with economic growth while marginalizing those that are not. Black, White, and Green is one of the first books to carefully theorize the green economy, to examine the racial dynamics of food politics, and to approach issues of food access from an environmental-justice perspective. In a practical sense, Alkon offers an empathetic critique of a newly popular strategy for social change, highlighting both its strengths and limitations.

Author : Mary Maynard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136194559

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Science and the Construction of Women (RLE Feminist Theory) by Mary Maynard Pdf

Science and the Construction of Women is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the major questions currently challenging feminist scholars of science. The authors ask key questions: What constitutes science? How have feminists investigated it? How does science ‘construct’ women? How can we create a feminist discourse of science? Are the current developments to women’s advantage or disadvantage? Their answers draw on material from a wide range of natural scientific, humanities and social science sources, critically examining theoretical approaches from the postmodern to the materialist to the cyborgian. A key argument of the book is that there are strong intellectual and pragmatic reasons – the rapid development of information technology, advances in fertility treatment and genetic engineering, feminist concern for environmental issues – why feminism must rigorously engage with issues of a scientific and technological nature. Science and the Construction of Women provides an important contribution to the opening-up and broadening of debate in the field. This book will be an important text for students of gender and women’s studies, and science studies. It is also designed to be read by feminists both inside and outside the academy and to appeal to all those with interests in the sociology of knowledge and the history of ideas.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Race
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044179187

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The Race Question in Modern Science by Unesco Pdf

'Contains all the brochures which have appeared separately in the (unesco) series:Race question in modern science.'

Author : Nancy Tuana,Sandra Morgen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791490167

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Engendering Rationalities by Nancy Tuana,Sandra Morgen Pdf

Engendering Rationalities brings together theorists whose work has been foundational to the development of feminist investigations of reason, objectivity, and knowledge with the work of scholars who build up and extend their insights. Contributors not only question standard conceptions of truth, objectivity, and our realist conceptions of the relationships between human knowledge and the world, but also offer rich and exciting alternatives to traditional theories that both arise out of and are compatible with feminist concerns. The book provides more adequate models of rationality that include the epistemic significance of a variety of subjective factors such as our specific cultural and social locations including sex, race, ethnicity, class, etc., and our personal commitments, desires, and interests.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135206161

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Technoscience and Cyberculture by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems addressed in Technoscience and Cyberculture concern the ways in which technology and science relate to one another and organize, orient and effect the landscape and inhabitants of contemporary culture.

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903497

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Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education by Michael A. Peters Pdf

This book reflects on the post-war Western university and its discourses charting the crisis of the concept of the modern university.

Author : Robert E. Kuttner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044089808

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Race and Modern Science by Robert E. Kuttner Pdf