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Ashby, Eric.Universities: British, Indian, African. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Cross, Theodore.The Black Power Imperative: Racial Inequality and the Politics of Non-Violence. New York: Faulkner, 1984.
Duster, Troy. “A Social Frame for Biological Knowledge.” In T. Duster and K. Garrett, eds.Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 1984.
Gutman, Herbert C.The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
Mannheim, Karl.Ideology and Utopia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
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Troy Duster is professor and chair. Department of Sociology, and director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor, with K. Garrett. of Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge:coauthor, with Herbert Blumer, of “Theories of Race and Social Action”: and author of The Legislation of Moralityand several articles on the social contexts of scientific research. He has been a member of the Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Duster, T. Purpose and bias. Society 24, 8–12 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695816
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