In the only book to date to explore the period between the 1859 publication of Darwin's 'Origin Of Species' and the discovery of Gregor Mendel's experiments in genetics, John S. Haller, Jr. shows the relationship between scientific 'conviction' and public policy. He focuses on the numerous liberally ...
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Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.
A classic in sociology, this examination of race relations in the United States was first published in the early 1940s. It is often cited as one of the most powerful, if unheeded, calls for change.
Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate differences in ability between groups. William Tucker shows how, for more than a century, scientific ...
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Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration fieldworker in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto.
Hughes's most popular and beloved fictional creation was Jesse B. Semple, a Harlem man from Virginia known as "simple" who was based on a conversation Hughes had with a defense-plant worker in 1943. Simple's romantic escapades, the racial indignities he suffered, his sardonic outlook on life, and th ...
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