Typecasting: On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality : a History of Dominant Ideas

Elizabeth Ewen, Stuart Ewen

Seven Stories Press, 2006 - Equality - 555 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Typecasting: On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality : a History of Dominant Ideas
• Authors: Elizabeth Ewen, Stuart Ewen
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1583227350, 9781583227350
• Length: 555 pages