The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future"The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding... has also created a useful text for diverse classroom settings." -- Library Journal "A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended." -- Choice "This is an excellent collection of essays that should prove useful in a wide range of STS courses." -- Science, Technology, and Society "... important and provocative... "Â -- The Women's Review of Books "The timeliness and utility of this large interdisciplinary reader on the relation of Western science to other cultures and to world history can hardly be overemphasized. It provides a tremendous resource for teaching and for research... "Â -- Ethics "Excellent." -- The Reader's Review "Sandra Harding is an intellectually fearless scholar. She has assembled a bold, impressive collection of essays to make a volume of illuminating power. This brilliantly edited book is essential reading for all who seek understanding of the multicultural debates of our age. Never has a book been more timely." -- Darlene Clark Hine These authors dispute science's legitimation of culturally approved definitions of race difference -- including craniology and the measurement of IQ, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiments, and the dependence of Third World research on First World agendas. |
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... Science and Civilization in China ( seven volumes in twelve parts ) , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1954 ) . Two journals that give a good sense of the diversity in the radical science movement are Science for the People ...
... rewrite the history of the origins of European " civilization " to make it self - generating ; and , through conquest , appropriate others ' knowledge , recycle it as Western , and suppress knowledge of its origins .
Roots of Classical Civilization . In the first of a projected three - volume study , Bernal focuses on what he calls the fabrication of ancient Greece between 1785 and 1985. He argues in the chapters reprinted here that it is no ...
E. Frances White makes these points in her review of Bernal's book , " Civilization Denied : Questions on Black Athena , " in Radical America , vol . 21 , no . 5 ( 1987 ) , 38-40 . For important discussions by scholars of African ...
POVERTIES AND TRIUMPHS OF THE CHINESE SCIENTIFIC TRADITION Joseph Needham The historical civilization of China is , with the Indian and the European - Semitic , one of the three greatest in the world , yet only in recent years has any ...
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Martin Bernal | 47 |
Early Andean Experimental Agriculture | 64 |
Blacks | 84 |
Gloria A Marshall | 116 |
The Study of Race | 128 |
James Jones | 275 |
Calling the Shots? The International Politics of DepoProvera | 287 |
Colonialism and the Evolution of Masculinist Forestry | 303 |
The Struggle | 315 |
Environmental Racism | 326 |
Methods and Values in Science | 341 |
The Role of Analogy in Science | 359 |
Donna Haraway | 377 |
Lewontin Steven Rose and Leon J Kamin | 142 |
Disease Class and Ideology in Science | 161 |
The Rejection | 170 |
Race and the Cult | 201 |
NineteenthCentury | 210 |
The Role of Foundation Support | 228 |
A Black Womans JourneyAn | 239 |
Increasing the Participation of Black Women in Science | 249 |
The Characteristics | 259 |
Japan and the United States | 398 |
The Relevance of Anthropology to Colonialism and Imperialism | 408 |
TOWARD A DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY FOR WORLD SCIENCES | 429 |
Bill Zimmerman et al | 440 |
Science and Black People | 456 |
Politics of Science | 472 |
A Third World Response | 484 |
Name Index | 519 |
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