Book info race unmasked book description race while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity is an idea with a measurable past an identifiable present and an uncertain future the concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in american history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. It is possible that yudell has avoided these connections between nineteenth and twentieth century racial science because of his belief that eugenicists created a fundamental break with the racial science of the past this brings us to the second narrative embedded in race unmasked according to yudell the biological race concept as we understand it today originated with eugenic theories of difference and was re created and integrated into modern biological thought by population . Tion throughout race unmasked but it is not without its problems the tension between scientists seeing the limits of race as aconcept for ordering human diversity yet still using race as a tool for studying human life is not unique to twentieth century biology had yudell expanded his timeline to the previous century hewould have also found . Race while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity is an idea with a measurable past an identifiable present and an uncertain future the concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in american history and has had a profound effect on the human experience this book revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial