Paul Lawrence Farber. Mixing Races: From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas. (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science.) xi + 120 pp., illus., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. $45 (cloth).

Isis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-425
Author(s):  
Mike Fortun
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
History Of

Russell McCormmach as a teacher

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-462
Author(s):  
Finn Aaserud
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Human Being ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Personal Tribute ◽  
History Of

The author gives a personal tribute of Russell McCormmach as a scholar and a person. From 1972 to 1976, McCormmach's writings, notably his introductions to the HSPS, served as unique inspiration for the author's .rst grapplings with the history of science in far-away Norway. From 1976 to 1984 the author was a student at Johns Hopkins University, with McCormmach as dissertation adviser until he left Hopkins in 1983. Because the doctoral research was carried out for the most part in Scandinavia, McCormmach's advice is to a great extent preserved in personal letters, which are quoted at some length. Ever since, the author and McCormmach have maintained a close, if sporadic, relationship. While his approach is personal, the author hopes to convey a general sense of McCormmach's unique qualities as a writer, editor and teacher, as well as a human being.

The “Hottentot Apron”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hodes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
French Academy ◽  
Freak Shows ◽  
Georges Cuvier ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Imperialism

This chapter examines the role played by racial scientists in the sexual scientific readings of the “Hottentot apron,” a perceived elongation of the labia associated with the Khoisan women of South Africa. It begins with the story of Georges Cuvier, a zoologist from the French academy who in 1816 performed a postmortem on Sarah Baartmann. Known in Europe as the “Hottentot Venus,” Baartmann became a popular fixture in “freak shows” and salons across Britain and France. The chapter rejects the liberationist claims made by sexual science and shows how the systemic study of perceived genital anomalies became a means for South African whites and European scholars to categorize who was civilized or barbaric. It argues that scientific claims about the “Hottentot apron” spread and evolved worldwide in relation to the doctrine of scientific racism and other important developments in the history of science and empire, including the onset of the “new imperialism.”

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