Author: John Beddoe
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Afua Hirsch
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546893
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today. You're British. Your parents are British. Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British. So why do people keep asking where you're from? We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and the racism that plagues our present. Brit(ish) is Afua Hirsch's personal and provocative exploration of how this came to be - and an urgent call for change. 'The book for our divided and dangerous times' David Olusoga

Author: John Beddoe
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781388170783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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John Beddoe (1826-1911) was Britain's foremost anthropologist who specialized in the study of race, craniology, and racial origins. "The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe" was his first complete overview of the racial and sub-racial makeup of the British Isles. His primary means of measure was skull and hair/eye colour combinations. Through cross-testing with the European continent, he found that the original inhabitants of Britain had been dark-haired and dark-eyed, and that the "greater part of the blond population of modern Britain derive their ancestry from the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians." Furthermore, he found, the "proportion of English and Scotch blood in the present inhabitants of Ireland is probably not much less than a third. " Beddoe also found that dark-haired population was re-occupying Britain by a "reflux migration" and that their numbers would steadily increase over time. His conclusions have since been verified by DNA testing, which serves as a testament to the thoroughness of his research. This is a valuable work which serves as a testament to the original make-up of the British people, and will serve as beacon of the past pointing into the future as mass Third World immigration changes the racial make-up of Britain in the present-day. Classic European anthropology at its best.

Author: Robert Knox
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Heather Streets
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719069628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As "martial races" these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies--a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire.

Author: Arthur comte de Gobineau
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Richard Eoin McMahon
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496215826
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard McMahon calls "national races," or the ageless biological essences of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric geopolitics treated "national races" as the proxies of nations in order to legitimize present-day geopolitical positions. On the other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary project was a vital episode in the development of the social sciences, using biological race classification to explain the history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations. National Races goes to the heart of tensions between nationalism and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries. Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists.

Author: John Beddoe
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Israel Smith Clare
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Joseph Deniker
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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