Author(s):
Melissa Stein

Book summary:
A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
Covering a wide range of historical actors in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, Measuring Manhood analyzes how race became the purview of science and reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making—and unmaking—of race.
Publication year:
2015
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
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Book URL:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/measuring-manhood