Download or read book The Myth of Race written by Robert Wald Sussman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological races do not exist—and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous idea, Robert Sussman explores how race emerged as a social construct from early biblical justifications to the pseudoscientific studies of today. The Myth of Race traces the origins of modern racist ideology to the Spanish Inquisition, revealing how sixteenth-century theories of racial degeneration became a crucial justification for Western imperialism and slavery. In the nineteenth century, these theories fused with Darwinism to produce the highly influential and pernicious eugenics movement. Believing that traits from cranial shape to raw intelligence were immutable, eugenicists developed hierarchies that classified certain races, especially fair-skinned “Aryans,” as superior to others. These ideologues proposed programs of intelligence testing, selective breeding, and human sterilization—policies that fed straight into Nazi genocide. Sussman examines how opponents of eugenics, guided by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas’s new, scientifically supported concept of culture, exposed fallacies in racist thinking. Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals today claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Sussman explains why—when it comes to race—too many people still mistake bigotry for science.
Download or read book Edinburgh written by Alexander Chee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time."—Brandon Taylor, GQ Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys choir. But when, on a retreat, Fee discovers how the director treats the boys he makes section leader, he is so ashamed, he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, Fee’s best friend, is in line to be next. The director is eventually arrested, and Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. Years later, after he has carefully pieced a new life together, Fee takes a job at a private school near his hometown. There he meets a young student, Arden, who, to his shock, is the picture of Peter—and the son of his old choir director. Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life” (Annie Dillard), this is a haunting, lyrically written debut novel that marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publisher’s Weekly).
Download or read book On the Other Side of Freedom written by DeRay Mckesson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs, consequences, and rewards of leading a movement."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Esquire Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines. In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism's wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom. Honest, courageous, and imaginative, On the Other Side of Freedom is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, On the Other Side of Freedom is a visionary's call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.
Download or read book The Story of Edinburgh written by John Peacock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated history explores every aspect of life in Edinburgh.This book covers the history of the city of Edinburgh from the first Mesolithic explorers who camped on the shores of the Forth some 10,000 years ago to the controversies of modern times.Taking a wider perspective it explores the ever-changing world resulting from industrialisation, which brought immigrants, wealth and poverty. Following that, new methods of transport opened up Edinburgh to the wider world. Now, with its historic architecture the city can become a battleground between developers and motorists who want more space in the central areas and conservationists who wish to protect the city’s landscape.
Download or read book Man at the Helm written by Nina Stibbe and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2015: From the writer of the hugely acclaimed Love, Nina comes a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously eccentric family. Soon after her parents' separation, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel moves with her siblings and newly single mother to a tiny village in the English countryside, where the new neighbors are horrified by their unorthodox ways and fatherless household. Lizzie's theatrical mother only invites more gossip by spending her days drinking whiskey, popping pills, and writing plays. The one way to fit in, the children decide, will be to find themselves a new man at the helm. The first novel from a remarkably gifted writer with a voice all her own, Man at the Helm is a hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking portrait of childhood in an unconventional family.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Spins Round Edinburgh written by Harry R. G. Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society written by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes List of fellows on each vol.
Download or read book The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club written by Old Edinburgh Club and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for include Reports of the annual meetings.
Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information for the Merchant Company and Trades of Edinburgh Pursuers against the Magistrates Ministers and Council of the city of Edinburgh Governors of George Heriot s Hospital Defenders June 18 1766 written by Company of Merchants (EDINBURGH) and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh written by Royal Society of Edinburgh and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.
Download or read book The Edinburgh Magazine Or Literary Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
