Race and biology
(2016)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2016). Race and biology. In L. Marcus, M. Mendelssohn, & K. Shepherd-Barr. (Eds.), Late Victorian into Modern (321-334). Oxford: Oxford University Press
The period 1880-1920 saw the emergence and then the qualified effacing of powerful discourses of racial essentialism and biological determinism: it was a period profoundly influenced, even mesmerized, by the authority of Darwinian science. This chapt... Read More about Race and biology.