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Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. By Jonathan Peter Spiro . (Burlington, University of Vermont Press, 2009. xvi + 487 pp. $39.95)
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This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 2010-05-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eugenics.read more
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Strange vicissitudes: The memory and uses of Indian captivity in the Progressive Era
TL;DR: The role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity has been explored by as mentioned in this paper, focusing on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era.
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Whatever Happened to the Cephalic Index? The Reality of Race and the Burden of Proof
TL;DR: The authors examines the work of anthropologist Franz Boas who, in the early twentieth century, argued against the existence of the stability of the cephalic index, a measure of head shape, and its relation to the mental and moral capacities of human races.
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Strange vicissitudes: The memory and uses of Indian captivity in the Progressive Era
TL;DR: The role of tales of Indian captivity in the national cultural identity has been explored by as mentioned in this paper, focusing on narratives from before 1890 or films after the turn of the century, virtually ignoring the tales reprinted during the Progressive Era.
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Whatever Happened to the Cephalic Index? The Reality of Race and the Burden of Proof
TL;DR: The authors examines the work of anthropologist Franz Boas who, in the early twentieth century, argued against the existence of the stability of the cephalic index, a measure of head shape, and its relation to the mental and moral capacities of human races.