Pickering & Chatto
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Until Darwin, science, human variety and the origins of race.
Brown, B. Ricardo.
Pickering & Chatto, ©2010 199 p. $99.00 GN281
978-1-84893-100-8
A scholar of culture, Brown explores the ways and systems of classification that Westerners have used to create a metaphysical construction of human bodies. He does not attempt to explain racial differences, or to debunk the concept of race, he says, because it has been thoroughly debunked many times to no avail. He discusses ecce homo or slavery and the human variety, classification and the species question, polygenesis and the types of mankind, Darwin in context: science against slavery, and the authority of the sciences of life. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
