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100 _aMichael D. Biddiss (ed.)
245 0 _aImages of race
260 _aLeicester
_bLeicester Univ. Press
_c1979
300 _a259p.
520 _aThis volume brings together eleven articles illustrative of debate upon race during the period from the first repercussions of the Darwinian revolution to the eve of the 'scramble for Africa'. In addition to presenting brief notes on each individual article, the editor provides a wide-ranging introductory essay which explores the significance of themes that recur throughout the collection at large. He highlights the bearing that such material has on a whole series of scientific, religious, and political issues which were of vital concern to Victorians. Not least, the Introduction elucidates the way in which racial categories were used to dis- tinguish both between stocks of different colour and between white men themselves. Thus the collection helps us to see how, for instance, not only the Jamaican Negro but also the Irish Celt was likely to become a victim of the cult of Anglo-Saxon destiny.
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