Jessica Blatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 90583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Blatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Blatt |
| SIGNATURE | BLATT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marymount Manhattan College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Institutional Logics and the Limits of Social Science Knowledge
As someone whose training is in political science and who writes about the history of my own discipline, I admit to some hesitation in recommending future avenues of research for historians of education. For that reason, the following thoughts are directed toward disciplinary history broadly and social science history specifically. Moreover, the three articles that contributors to this forum were asked to use as inspiration suggest that any futur…
John C. Eby and Fred Morton. The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993
In February 2012, U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview to an Egyptian television news channel, Al Hayat TV. One year after the uprising that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak, the interviewer asked Ginsburg whether Egyptian lawmakers should look to the U.S. Constitution as a prototype for a new Egyptian constitution. “No,” answered Ginsburg. Instead, she’d recommend South Africa’s constitution, “a deliberate attem…
Scientific Racism
Science has a long and fraught history of entanglement with the social myth of biological race. The modern sciences of biology and physical anthropology were founded on the conviction that the human species was divided into discrete racial groups with distinct characteristics and capacities. Advances in these very sciences, however, have shown that, while human populations differ biologically, population‐level differences are both relatively triv…
Racism, Scientific
Scientific work predicated on the assumption that racial categories reflect natural human groupings, and/or that racial differences are consequential, stable, and deep‐seated, is termed “scientific racism.” Scientific racism may locate racial difference in biology or in durable psychological or cultural patterns.
Difference of a different kind: Jewish constructions of race during the long eighteenth century
Difference of a different kind: Jewish constructions of race during the long eighteenth century." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(13), pp. 2401–2402
John W. Burgess, the racial state and the making of the American science of politics
This article examines the place of racial ideas in the constitution of political science as an academic discipline in the USA. For the Gilded Age generation that built the first PhD-granting departments in political science in the country, 'race' was the source of sovereignty, the basis of democratic legitimacy and a tool for delineating democracy's borders. It was also an important element of that cohort's aspiration to a 'science' of politics, …
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Erica R. Edwards Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 288 pp Anyone who has taught history or politics to American undergraduates knows the “great men of history” aren't going quietly
Scientific Racism
Science has a long and fraught history of entanglement with the social myth of biological race. The modern sciences of biology and physical anthropology were founded on the conviction that racial difference was real, fundamental, and key to understanding the proper relationships between human groups. Advances in these very sciences, however, have shown that race is in no way an objective, natural category. While there are certainly biological dif…
To bring out the best that is in their blood: Race, reform, and civilization in thejournal of race development(1910-1919)
The Journal of Race Development [JRD], published out of Clark University in the United States between 1910 and 1919, aimed, in its founder's words, "to present ... the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped". Its basic premise was that scientific knowledge could harness racial or civilizational "evolution" and t…
To bring out the best that is in their blood: Race, reform, and civilization in thejournal of race development(1910-1919)
The Journal of Race Development [JRD], published out of Clark University in the United States between 1910 and 1919, aimed, in its founder's words, "to present ... the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped". Its basic premise was that scientific knowledge could harness racial or civilizational "evolution" and t…
John W. Burgess, the racial state and the making of the American science of politics
This article examines the place of racial ideas in the constitution of political science as an academic discipline in the USA. For the Gilded Age generation that built the first PhD-granting departments in political science in the country, 'race' was the source of sovereignty, the basis of democratic legitimacy and a tool for delineating democracy's borders. It was also an important element of that cohort's aspiration to a 'science' of politics, …
Institutional Logics and the Limits of Social Science Knowledge
As someone whose training is in political science and who writes about the history of my own discipline, I admit to some hesitation in recommending future avenues of research for historians of education. For that reason, the following thoughts are directed toward disciplinary history broadly and social science history specifically. Moreover, the three articles that contributors to this forum were asked to use as inspiration suggest that any futur…
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Erica R. Edwards Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 288 pp Anyone who has taught history or politics to American undergraduates knows the “great men of history” aren't going quietly
To bring out the best that is in their blood: Race, reform, and civilization in thejournal of race development(1910-1919)
The Journal of Race Development [JRD], published out of Clark University in the United States between 1910 and 1919, aimed, in its founder's words, "to present ... the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped". Its basic premise was that scientific knowledge could harness racial or civilizational "evolution" and t…
Scientific Racism
Science has a long and fraught history of entanglement with the social myth of biological race. The modern sciences of biology and physical anthropology were founded on the conviction that racial difference was real, fundamental, and key to understanding the proper relationships between human groups. Advances in these very sciences, however, have shown that race is in no way an objective, natural category. While there are certainly biological dif…
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
Erica R. Edwards Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 288 pp Anyone who has taught history or politics to American undergraduates knows the “great men of history” aren't going quietly
John W. Burgess, the racial state and the making of the American science of politics
This article examines the place of racial ideas in the constitution of political science as an academic discipline in the USA. For the Gilded Age generation that built the first PhD-granting departments in political science in the country, 'race' was the source of sovereignty, the basis of democratic legitimacy and a tool for delineating democracy's borders. It was also an important element of that cohort's aspiration to a 'science' of politics, …
Racism, Scientific
Scientific work predicated on the assumption that racial categories reflect natural human groupings, and/or that racial differences are consequential, stable, and deep‐seated, is termed “scientific racism.” Scientific racism may locate racial difference in biology or in durable psychological or cultural patterns.
Difference of a different kind: Jewish constructions of race during the long eighteenth century
Difference of a different kind: Jewish constructions of race during the long eighteenth century." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(13), pp. 2401–2402
Scientific Racism
Science has a long and fraught history of entanglement with the social myth of biological race. The modern sciences of biology and physical anthropology were founded on the conviction that the human species was divided into discrete racial groups with distinct characteristics and capacities. Advances in these very sciences, however, have shown that, while human populations differ biologically, population‐level differences are both relatively triv…
Institutional Logics and the Limits of Social Science Knowledge
As someone whose training is in political science and who writes about the history of my own discipline, I admit to some hesitation in recommending future avenues of research for historians of education. For that reason, the following thoughts are directed toward disciplinary history broadly and social science history specifically. Moreover, the three articles that contributors to this forum were asked to use as inspiration suggest that any futur…
John C. Eby and Fred Morton. The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993
In February 2012, U.S. Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave an interview to an Egyptian television news channel, Al Hayat TV. One year after the uprising that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak, the interviewer asked Ginsburg whether Egyptian lawmakers should look to the U.S. Constitution as a prototype for a new Egyptian constitution. “No,” answered Ginsburg. Instead, she’d recommend South Africa’s constitution, “a deliberate attem…
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