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The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white trad

Scientific racism and the idea of races as cultural constructions were thus interrelated aspects of the same effort to explain human differences."--BOOK JACKET.

How natural history made sex scientific in the eighteenth century. If sexology—the science of sex—came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then h

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects

Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as