(book reviews)

Canadian Journal of History;  April 1, 1995 ;   Lorimer, Douglas A.;   787 words ......1992. xiii, 381 pp. Scientific racism claims that biological...Barkan's study of scientific racism in Great Britain...intellectual foundations of scientific racism. The book is divided...This shift away from biological determinism was significant...undermined ...

Sociobiology and you.(The Blank Slate)(Book Review)

The Nation;  November 18, 2002 ;   Johnson, Steven;   787 words ......demolition of that battle-worn slur, biological determinism, still lugged out by the occasional...underlying message remained constant: Biological determinism was a rear-guard movement, the...trouble with a catchall phrase like biological determinism is that both words of the ...

African Americans and "scientific racism"

Call and Post (Cincinnati);  August 31, 1995 ;   Greg Williams;   787 words ......08-31-1995 African Americans and "scientific racism". Science has been distorted in the service of racism. Scientific racism is a fact. It exists in the...Americans on a daily basis. Scientific racism has a long history. More importantly...

BOOKS: The tip of the white iceberg

The Independent - London;  September 17, 1995 ;   BEN ROGERS;   787 words ......horrors of Nazism would discredit scientific racism once and for all. Since the Second...Nazi movement, past and present. Scientific racism has, of course, changed since its...communities; in the former Yugoslavia scientific racism has played its part in the rise of...

Psychiatry and its Relationship to Black Americans

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  September 5, 1995 ;   Greg Williams;   787 words ......the service of racism. Scientific racism is a fact. It exists in...Americans on a daily basis. Scientific racism has a long history. More...not. To understand how "scientific racism" is the oppressor of African...

COLUMN: Women's struggle perpetual

University Wire;  February 23, 2005 ;   Samantha Sharac;   787 words ......Declaration of Independence and biological determinism. Historically, the ideal American...of happiness. The "rationale" of biological determinism is also responsible for the historic...well as many advocates who rely on biological determinism as the correct guide path of women...

Naturalism

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature;    James D. Hart;   170 words ......thought, following in general the biological determinism of Darwin's theory, or the economic...literature, in which Zola emphasizes biological determinism, and Flaubert economic determinism...

Self-concept of African-American students: an operational model for...

Exceptional Children;  October 1, 1992 ;   Obiakor, Festus E.;   787 words ......inferior based on the old theory of biological determinism (see Gould, 1981; Minton &...is derived from the concept of biological determinism. This concept implies that behavioral...biological conditions. Advocates of biological determinism, like Herrnstein ( 1971 ), Jensen...

"We could all be wealthy if we weren't so lazy and stupid"

CCPA Monitor;  July 1, 2007 ;   Black, Antony;   787 words ......One significant recent example goes under the name of "biological determinism." The notion here, ostensibly in tune with Darwinian...racial, and gender discrimination), the ideology of biological determinism has nevertheless churned through several modern incarnations...

The Origins of Scientific Racism

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  January 1, 2005 ;   Jackson, John P Jr; Weidman, Nadine M; Rubin, Gretchen;   787 words ......genetic racial inferiority Scientific racism, which was widely accepted...ideology that can be called "scientific racism" at the end of the nineteenth...the twentieth century. Scientific racism was the result of two...

The passing of a hero. (case settlement limiting tobacco advertising...

The Economist (US);  June 28, 1997 ;     787 words ......on responsibility have gathered force. The first is biological determinism, which reflects the advance of science: modern genetics...smokers have found that it is possible to quit. But biological determinism has the power these days to obscure this little detail...

The Funding of Scientific Racism

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  January 31, 2003 ;   Tucker, William H.;   787 words ......but extreme manifestations of an intellectual and political tradition that has proved both enduring and influential. That scientific racism survives in the United States is not in itself news, certainly not to anyone who followed the fracas over The Bell Curve...

A Number No Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: The Use and Abuse of...

Human Biology;  August 1, 2003 ;   Vitzthum, Virginia J;   787 words ......nature-nurture debate is itself meaningful). Yet adherents to biological determinism have claimed that high heritability estimates prove...Livingstone effectively challenged racial typologies, biological determinism, and the reification of numbers. Following his example...

gene

The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy;    SIMON BLACKBURN;   129 words ......foundations and determiners…’ Genes are now identified with lengths of DNA or RNA. Simplistic forms of biological determinism suppose that arbitrary characteristics of an organism (e.g. poverty, criminality) are genetically specified...

Letter: Born to be bad?

The Independent - London;  June 15, 1999 ;   Dr Gary Slapper;   194 words ...Sir: Sanjida O'Connell's excellent survey of the debate about biological determinism ("Do we choose to be good?", 11 June) omits any mention of the places where the developing science will be transformed into gripping...