The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’

The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’
Author: Marianne Sommer
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1805112635

This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth century, diagrams have been used to determine but also to deny kinship between human groups. In nineteenth-century craniometry, they were omnipresent in attempts to standardize measurements on skulls for hierarchical categorization. In particular the ’human family tree’ was central for evolutionary understandings of human diversity, being used on both sides of debates about whether humans constitute different species well into the twentieth century. With recent advances in (ancient) DNA analyses, the tree diagram has become more contested than ever―does human relatedness take the shape of a network? Are human individual genomes mosaics made up of different ancestries? Sommer examines the epistemic and political role of these visual representations in the history of ‘race’ as an anthropological category. How do such diagrams relate to imperial and (post-)colonial practices and ideologies but also to liberal and humanist concerns? The Diagrammatics of 'Race' concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world. Contributing to the ‘diagrammatic turn’ in the humanities and social sciences, it reveals connections between diagrams in anthropology and other visual traditions, including in religion, linguistics, biology, genealogy, breeding, and eugenics.

Introduction to the Constitution of India (A Diagrammatic and Tabular Presentation)

Introduction to the Constitution of India (A Diagrammatic and Tabular Presentation)
Author: CA. Ashish K Agrawal and Aditi Agrawal
Publisher: CA. Ashish K Agrawal
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Foreword by CA. (Dr.) Girish Ahuja Pages 359 (Edition 2021) Specially designed for competitive exams and students of B.Com, M.Com, BBA, MBA, LLB, CA/CS/CMA and other specialised courses. The main features of this book which make it better than other books, are :- 1. All the topics have been presented in a tabular form (no paragraphs have been used) which make it easier to read and understand. 2. Diagrams for most of the topics have been given in this book. This makes it very easy for the students to understand and remember the contents. 3. All the concepts have been given pointwise which makes reading very fast and easy. 4. This book gives conceptual clarity of the law. 5. This book not only helps in scoring very good marks in exam, but also in using the law in practical world.

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market
Author: Ebun Joseph
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526134411

This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality.

Picturing Tropical Nature

Picturing Tropical Nature
Author: Nancy Stepan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801438813

"Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.

Science

Science
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1887
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.

‘Race Is Everything’

‘Race Is Everything’
Author: David Bindman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789146968

A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. ‘Race Is Everything’ explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. He argues that behind all racial ideas of the period lies the belief that outward appearance—and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology—can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races. The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race, and aesthetics; the purported “Mediterranean race”; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.