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Theodore Roosevelt and the idea of race
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ISBN: 0807106585 Year: 1980 Publisher: Baton Rouge London Louisiana State University Press

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Edmond Picard, jurisconsulte de Race
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ISBN: 2804404331 9782804404338 Year: 1999 Volume: *5 Publisher: Bruxelles: Larcier,


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Un jurisconsulte de Race : Edmond Picard (1836-1924)
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ISBN: 9782804453268 280445326X Year: 2012 Publisher: Bruxelles: Larcier,

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The color of race in America, 1900-1940
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ISBN: 0674010124 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Ma ; London : Harvard University Press,


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Kant and the concept of race
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ISBN: 1461943124 1438443633 9781461943129 9781438443638 9781438443614 1438443617 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany

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Kant and the Concept of Race features translations of four texts by Immanuel Kant frequently designated his Racenschriften (race essays), in which he develops and defends an early theory of race. Also included are translations of essays by four of Kant's contemporaries—E. A. W. Zimmermann, Georg Forster, Christoph Meiners, and Christoph Girtanner—which illustrate that Kant's interest in the subject of race was part of a larger discussion about human "differences," one that impacted the development of scientific fields ranging from natural history to physical anthropology to biology.

Modernism and eugenics : Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and the culture of degeneration
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ISBN: 1107123933 0521033306 0511119704 0511485026 0511153775 0511303556 0511044070 128015490X 0511017855 9780511017858 9780511044076 9780511119705 9780521806015 0521806011 9780511485022 9781107123939 9780521033305 9780511153778 9780511303555 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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In Modernism and Eugenics, first published in 2001, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the eugenics movement on such modernist works as Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, The Waste Land and Yeats's late poetry and early plays. The language of eugenics moves, he claims, between public discourse and personal perspectives. It informs Woolf's theorization of woman's imagination; in Eliot's poetry, it pictures as a nightmare the myriad contemporary eugenical threats to humankind's biological and cultural future. And for Yeats, it becomes integral to his engagement with the occult and his commitment to Irish Nationalism. This is an interesting study of a controversial theme which reveals the centrality of eugenics in the life and work of several major modernist writers.

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