Editor's Foreword

John P. Jackson, Jr.

Overview

Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science

Nancy Leys Stepan

Darwinism and Race

Alfred Russel Wallace, the Origin of Man, and Spiritualism

Malcolm Jay Kottler

William Charles Wells and the Races of Man

Kentwood D. Wells

The Duke of Argyll, Evolutionary Anthropology and the Art of Scientific Controversy

Neal C. Gillespie

Science, Race, and Politics

Racial Science, Social Science, and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation

Mitchell B. Hart

The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890--1919

Jennifer Michael Hecht

The American Scientist as Social Activist: Franz Boas, Burt G. Wilder, and the Cause of Racial Justice, 1900--1915

Edward H. Beardsley

Blind Law and Powerless Science: The American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the Scientific Case Against Discrimination, 1945--1950

John P. Jackson Jr.

Rassenhygiene and Germany

German Eugenics between Science and Politics

Peter Weingart

The Race Hygiene Movement in Germany

Sheila Faith Weiss

Wilhelm Schallmayer and the Logic of German Eugenics

Sheila Faith Weiss

The Institutional Bases of Racial Science

Anthropological Institutions in Nineteenth-Century France

Elizabeth Williams

The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, 1910--1940: An Essay in Institutional History

Garland E. Allen

It May Be Truth, But It Is Not Evidence: Paul Du Chaillu and the Legitimation of Evidence in the Field Sciences

Stuart McCook

Francis La Flesche: The American Indian as Anthropologist

Joan Mark

Racial Science, National Contexts, and Colonialism

Imperialism, Colonial Identity, and Race in Algeria, 1830--1870: The Role of the French Medical Corps

Patricia M. E. Lorcin

Racism and Medical Science in South Africa's Cape Colony in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century

Harriet Deacon

Debating Racial Science in Wartime Japan

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Index