Ashley Montagu

Man's Most Dangerous Myth

The Fallacy of Race

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Montagu's revolutionary 1942 text has been abridged for students. Breaking the link between genetics and culture, he argued that race is largely a socila construction, and not contitutive of significant biological differences between people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• 6th edition
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1211g
• ISBN-13: 9780803946477
• ISBN-10: 0803946473
• Artikelnr.: 28113594

Autorenporträt

By Ashley Montagu

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Abridged Student Edition Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Foreword to the First Edition
Chapter 3 Foreword to the Sixth Edition
Chapter 4 Preface to the Sixth Edition
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 1. The Origin of the Concept of Race
Chapter 7 2. The Fallaciousness of the Older Anthropological Conception of
Race
Chapter 8 3. The Genetical Theory of Race
Chapter 9 4. The Biological Facts
Chapter 10 5. Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Humankind
Chapter 11 6. The Mythology of Race, or "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Chapter 12 7. Race and Society
Chapter 13 8. Biological and Social Factors
Chapter 14 9. Psychological Factors
Chapter 15 10. Race and Culture
Chapter 16 11. Racism and Social Action
Chapter 17 12. Intelligence, IQ, and Race
Part 18 Unabridged Table of Contents
Chapter 19 Foreword to the First Edition
Chapter 20 Foreword to the Sixth Edition
Chapter 21 Preface to the Sixth Edition
Chapter 22 Introduction
Chapter 23 1. The Origin of the Concept of Race
Chapter 24 2. The Fallaciousness of the Older Anthropological Conception of
Race
Chapter 25 3. The Genetical Theory of Race
Chapter 26 4. The Biological Facts
Chapter 27 5. Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Humankind
Chapter 28 6. The Mythology of Race, or "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Chapter 29 7. Race and Society
Chapter 30 8. Biological and Social Factors
Chapter 31 9. Psychological Factors
Chapter 32 10. The Creative Power of Ethnic Mixture
Chapter 33 11. Eugenics, Genetics, and Race
Chapter 34 12. Race and Culture
Chapter 35 13. Race and War
Chapter 36 14. Race and Blood
Chapter 37 15. Innate Aggression and Race
Chapter 38 16. Myths Relating to the Physical Traits of Blacks
Chapter 39 17. Are the Jews a Race?
Chapter 40 18. The First Americans
Chapter 41 19. The Meaning of Equal Opportunity
Chapter 42 20. Race and Democracy
Chapter 43 21. Racism and Social Action
Chapter 44 22. Sociocultural Behavioral Influences
Chapter 45 23. Intelligence, IQ, and Race
Chapter 46 Appendix A: Ethnic Group and Race
Chapter 47 Appendix B: The Fallacy of the Primitive
Chapter 48 Appendix C: The Term Miscegination
Chapter 49 Appendix D: Intelligence of Northern Blacks and Southern Whites
in the First World War
Chapter 50 Bibliography