The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

by Edward Beasley

Book Overview

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415652782
• ISBN13: 9780415652780
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"