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Conceiving Contempt and Pity: Race and Progressive Era Americans - David W. Southern The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900–1917. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005. xi + 240 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-234-X. - Jonathan Spiro. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009. xvi + 512 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6.

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David W. Southern The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900–1917. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005. xi + 240 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-234-X.
Jonathan Spiro. Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Burlington: University of Vermont Press, 2009. xvi + 512 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2010

Gregory Michael Dorr
Gregory Michael Dorr
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Amherst College
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 2010 , pp. 395 - 400
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References

1 DuBois, W. E. B., The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago, 1903)Google Scholar; DuBois, W. E. B., “The Perpetual Dilemma,” Crisis, Apr. 1917, 270–71.Google Scholar

2 Brechin, Gray, “Conserving the Race: Natural Aristocracies, Eugenics, and the U.S. Conser vation Movement,” Antipode 28 (Summer 1996): 229–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Chase, Alan, The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Cost of the New Scientific Racism (New York, 1977)Google Scholar; Black, Edwin, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York, 2007).Google Scholar

4 Wade, Nicholas, “A New Look at Old Data May Discredit a Theory on Race,” New York Times, Oct. 8, 2002Google Scholar; Sparks, Corey S. and Jantz, Richard L., “A Reassessment of Human Cranial Plasticity: Boas Revisited,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99 (Nov. 12, 2002): 14636–39.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

5 Hrdlicka, Ales, The Old Americans (Baltimore, 1925)Google Scholar; Hrdlicka's close friend Robert Bennett Bean's work is particularly pertinent, demonstrating, with Hrdlicka's editorial assent, a racism as powerful as Grant's. See the following articles by Bean, Robert Bennett: “Some Racial Char acteristics of the Heart and Kidney Weight in Man,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2 (1919): 274–81Google Scholar; “Some Racial Characteristics of the Liver Weight in Man,” ibid., 167–74; “Some Racial Characteristics of the Spleen Weight in Man,” ibid., 1–9; and even the innocuously titled, “The Sitting Height,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 5 (Oct.-Dec., 1922): 349–90.

6 Walter Weyl quoted in Southern, Progressive Era and Race, 62; Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk.