The Blinding Light of Race: Race and Racism in Western Society, Volume 2: Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between the Wars

This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience.

Michael L. Blakey is a leading anthropologist at William & Mary University, whose training and productive research career (80 publications in major journals) integrates human biology, history, and culture, including critical writings on the history and philosophy of science. He is the recipient of many awards, including the President’s Award of the American Anthropological Association, the Legacy Award of the Association of Black Anthropologists, an Honorary Doctor of Science from CUNY, and the Plumeri Award.