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Since the eighteenth century when natural historians created the idea of distinct racial categories, scientific findings on race have been a double-edged sword.

In this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race.