The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences by Edward Beasley

The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Edward Beasley

258 pages • first pub 2010 (view editions)

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In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and...

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