Typecasting : On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality - A History of Dominant Ideas

Investigating the practice of science in the service of prejudice, this book brings to life the dark history of the Age of Democracy, where every step toward equality has found a parallel retreat into hierarchical dogma. In 1776, as some Amer. colonials proclaimed that all men are created equal, Johann Blumenbach, court physician to England¿s King George III, subdivided humanity into 5 unequal categories. This monumental work of popular history exposes the pivotal developments that have made stereotypes a persistent, common language. Moving across centuries & continents in 30 vignettes, the book uncovers the incubation of modern stereotypes in the halls of science & aesthetics & traces their materialization in the popular imagination. Illustrations.Ewen, Elizabeth is the author of 'Typecasting : On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality - A History of Dominant Ideas', published 2007 under ISBN 9781422390344 and ISBN 1422390349.