AFRICANA STUDIES 333c - Science and the Politics of Inequality

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Bowdoin College

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Fall 2006. DAVID HECHT. Examines theories of innate "difference" - in race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexualit- as they have developed in scientific investigation and American politics over the twentieth century. Explores why such notions were created, to what political and social ends they have been used, and what the role of science has been in alternately validating and challenging them. Topics discussed include evolution, eugenics, the emergence of cultural anthropology, the growth of genetics under the shadow of Nazism, and the "Bell-Curve wars" of the 1980s.(Same as Gender and Women's Studies 333 and History 333.)

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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