National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945

Author/Contributor(s):	McMahon, Richard
Publisher:	University of Nebraska Press
Date:	06/01/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.