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"Vitalité": Race Science And Jews In France 1850-1914, Kendra Beth Hendrickson
"Vitalité": Race Science And Jews In France 1850-1914, Kendra Beth Hendrickson
Dissertations and Theses
Race science is built on ideas of division and categorization. In the historian's quest to tell the story of race science, certain frameworks have been used that can greatly inhibit our understanding of this fraught topic. The impulse to study race science in the framework of the nation-state has led to certain misconceptions and lends itself to a historical narrative wherein racist concepts stop at artificially imposed borders. In addition, the national framework detracts from the individual's contributions and instead lumps these contributions together on the level of the nation-state, thus opening the door for judgments about whole nations being …