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Science, Race and Immigration
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about the ascendancy of science in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and the use of science to classify people into racial types and racial hierarchies. This gave rise to...
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Race and Ethnicity: Who's Who and What's What?
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that there are differences of opinion as to what constitutes "whiteness." Individual anthropologists or other social scientists do not always agree with government census categ...