Part One – Emergence: Thinking the Science of Race, 1750-1880

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Climate to Crania: science and the racialization of human difference

Slippery word

Changing connotations

New imperatives: taxonomy and biology

Original unity and the paradox of human differences

Intimating polygeny

Origins, races, species

The triumph of racial difference

Species, hybrids, synthesis

Defining a species

Confronting hybrids

Darwinian synthesis

Broca and the degrees of hybridity

Topinard's synthesis

Residual monogeny and the spectre of extinction

Conclusion

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