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Title

Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality / Ewen & Ewen.

Author

Ewen, Elizabeth.

Publication

New York : Seven Stories Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Ewen, Stuart.

Description

xvii, 555 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

In this work of popular history, Ewen & Ewen expose the pivotal developments that have made stereotypes a persistent, common language. Moving across centuries and continents in thirty eloquent vignettes, their journey uncovers the incubation of modern stereotypes in the halls of science and aesthetics and traces their materialization in the popular imagination. Their detective work in museum archives, popular magazines, and film alike, uncovers how stereotype has served as the groundwork of power in the modern world. -- BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Typecasting : on the arts and sciences of human inequality

Subject

• Race
• Stereotypes (Social psychology)
• Equality
• Racial Groups
• Stereotyping

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-533) and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments -- Preface -- pt. 1. Genesis : the modern world system -- 1. Didot's invention -- 2. The company of strangers -- 3. Created equal -- 4. Visual truth -- 5. Curiosity cabinets -- pt. 2. Taxonomies of human difference -- 6. Physiognomy : the science of first impressions -- 7. Hierarchies of humanity -- 8. Camper's angle -- 9. Tablier rasa -- 10. Spurzheim's funeral -- 11. Crania Americana -- 12. An American tale -- 13. The pencil of nature -- 14. Facial politics -- 15. The costermonger's tongue and Roget's thesaurus -- Interlude -- 16. Reverberations of change -- pt. 3. The faces of degeneration -- 17. Identifying the group within the individual -- 18. Finding the individual within the group -- 19. Criminal types -- pt. 4. Nordic nightmares -- 20. The amazing race -- 21. Morons in our midst -- 22. Eugenics goes to the fair.
• pt. 5. The modern battlegrounds of type -- 23. Dat famous chicken debate -- 24. Male and female created he them -- 25. The return of the repressed -- 26. Writing history with lightning -- 27. Movable types -- 28. Persistence of vision -- 29. Tales of before and after -- Coda -- 30. Recent social trends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.

ISBN

1583227350 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006012832
• 9781583227350 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC

67921887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library