The Evolution of Racism

Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science

Pat Shipman

    Prologue

    PART I. EVOLUTION

    Chapter 1. One Long Argument: 1857
    Chapter 2. A Man Who Has Lost Himself
    Chapter 3. The Question of Questions for Mankind

    PART II. EVOLUTION EVOLVING

    Chapter 4. Enthusiastic Propagandism
    Chapter 5. Freedom in Science

    PART III. EVOLUTIONARY RACISM

    Chapter 6. Survival of the Unfittest
    Chapter 7. Sweeping Toward a Racial Abyss

    PART IV. THE GENETICS OF EVOLUTION

    Chapter 8. As Blond as Hitler
    Chapter 9. All Non-Jews Are Anti-Semitic

    PART V. EVOLUTIONARY POLITICS

    Chapter 10. Pernicious Doctrines of Racial Inequality
    Chapter 11. As Brainwashed as Pavlov's Puppies
    Chapter 12. To Padlock the Mind

    PART VI. THE GENETICS OF RACISM

    Chapter 13. The Ratio of Light to Heat
    Chapter 14. A Conflict Character

    Epilogue: Valuing the Differences
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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Pat Shipman is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc Prize for The Wisdom of the Bones (coauthored with Alan Walker) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science for Taking Wing, which was also a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998.