The Caravan

THE BOOKSHELF

SUPERIOR THE RETURN OF RACE SCIENCE

Angela Saini

In this book, the journalist Angela Saini reveals the recent upsurge of race science in political and academic discourse. She also goes back to the origins of race science, looking at the Victorian move towards categorisation as well as at how some of the now canonical figures in botany, biology

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Caravan

The Caravan10 min read
Weak Links
“We are just waiting for the Congress,” Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, said at a rally in Purnea district, on 25 February. Kumar, who represents the Janata Dal (United), was speaking at the first formal congregation of a new grand allianc
The Caravan5 min read
Sculpting Lives
Daril Atkins sculpts parts of the human body. The life of this 77-year-old sculptor-turned-anaplastologist is marked by giving helping hands to people, literally. “I am a trained sculptor,” he told me at his lab, DA Anaplastology India LLP, in Bengal
The Caravan6 min readWorld
Alignment Issues
The meeting of G20 foreign ministers in Delhi, on 1 and 2 March, was deemed a success for “Brand India.” But it all depends on how we define success. The first three G20 summits, held in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, saw concrete outcomes: p

Related