Reviews for The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity

The average rating for The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-18 00:00:00 Darrell Yarnall Probably the most comprehensive survey on the history of race theory that I've read so far. A bit dry sometimes as he recounts the pseudo-scientific debates of ages past, or describes the various taxonomies of skull-measuring Europeans determined to create a classification system for human beings that would place themselves at the top of the heap. But that's not a criticism of the book, it's exactly what it's good for; this book is probably the best starting point for deeper dives into the subject matter then any other.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-02 00:00:00 Glenn Anderson Easy to read study on how racial categories where arbitrary invented and how it needed a holocaust to be rethinked with more rigid scientific standards For my disappointment the Bell curve controversy is not addressed here, but this book is focused on mainstream science and not some conservative think thank propaganda, so i should not have expected it. For me there was nothing new, but a more digestible account why race is a social construct, but still a construct that affects people. The most interesting part was not the history of race classification, but the current discussion on how to talk about race? Should scientict talk about "race" with quotation marks or just use the word ethnicity? and so on