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Evolution and Race in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
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Siff, Sarah Brady
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Year and Degree
2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
Abstract
Evolutionary theory in the United States has always been tied to the question of physical differences between groups of humans. During the modern civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, some argued that black people were less evolved than white people, as opposed to others who insisted that evolutionary theory proved all mankind arose from a single ancestor. Some segregationists compared black people to apes and monkeys to indicate lower evolutionary status, and others used the term “evolution not revolution” as an argument against significant changes in blacks’ status. In these ways, evolutionary theory was tainted by the acrimony of civil rights debates. This entanglement could be a factor contributing to the theory’s non-acceptance by a significant segment of Americans.
Committee
Allan Winkler, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kimberley Hamlin, PhD (Committee Member)
Kevin Armitage, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
44 p.
Subject Headings
American History
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American Studies
;
History
Keywords
evolution
;
evolutionary theory
;
race
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African Americans
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civil rights
;
popular science
;
genetics
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Siff, S. B. (2011).
Evolution and Race in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
[Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1314282392
APA Style (7th edition)
Siff, Sarah.
Evolution and Race in Mid-Twentieth-Century America.
2011. Miami University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1314282392.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Siff, Sarah. "Evolution and Race in Mid-Twentieth-Century America." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1314282392
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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