The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference

(University of California Press) In this book, Morning examines how scientists, through teaching and textbooks, are helping to shape ideas about race. She explores the conception of race through a variety of disciplines, from biology to anthropology, ultimately showing the logic and assumptions that underlie current thought about human difference. Morning is an assistant professor sociology at New York University.

 

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