Brain and Race : A History of Cerebral Anthropology.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Eighteenth-century Onset -- 1 Darker Skin and Brain -- 2 Qualitative and Quantitative Differences -- 3 Speculations and Objections -- Chapter 2 -- Rising Tide -- 1 The "Phrenological Wedge" -- 2 Shrunken Brains -- 3 Materialism and the Recapitulation Theory -- 4 Weighing Empty, Filled Spaces -- 5 The Will to Differentiate -- 6 Early Doubts -- Chapter 3 -- Climax -- 1 Uncertain Certainty: Paris on Stage -- 2 An Intense Decade -- 3 An Urgent Desideratum for Science -- 4 Antinomies and Paradoxes -- 5 Orphans of Broca -- 6 "A Literature by Itself" -- Chapter 4 -- Twentieth-century Epilogue -- 1 Resilience Despite Everything -- 2 Further Views in Conflict -- 3 Innovating Techniques, Popular Science, and Deconstructing Myths -- Summary -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.

For nearly two centuries, the racial significance of the human brain has absorbed a huge amount of scientific energy, despite the frequency of shortcomings and disappointing results. This book tries to show and explain the resilience of such a thorny issue.

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