Brain and Race : A History of Cerebral Anthropology

For nearly two centuries, the racial significance of the human brain has absorbed a huge amount of scientific energy, despite the frequency of shortcomings and disappointing results. This book tries to show and explain the resilience of such a thorny issue.

Contents

Introduction
1 Eighteenth-century Onset
1-1 Darker Skin and Brain
1-2 Qualitative and Quantitative Differences
1-3 Speculations and Objections
2 Rising Tide
2-1 The “Phrenological Wedge”
2-2 Shrunken Brains
2-3 Materialism and the Recapitulation Theory
2-4 Weighing Empty, Filled Spaces
2-5 The Will to Differentiate
2-6 Early Doubts
3 Climax
3-1 Uncertain Certainty: Paris on Stage
3-2 An Intense Decade
3-3 An Urgent Desideratum for Science
3-4 Antinomies and Paradoxes
3-5 Orphans of Broca
3-6 “A Literature By Itself”
4 Twentieth-century Epilogue
4-1 Resilience Despite Everything
4-2 Further Views in Conflict
4-3 Innovating Techniques, Popular Science, and Deconstructing Myths
Bibliography
Index of Names


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