scientific racism

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• SOURCE: Distillations
  2/7/2023
  

  Origin Stories: How Science Invented the Idea of Race

  The Science History Institute presents a new podcast series on the development of the idea of race in the context of Enlightement, colonialism and empire. 

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• SOURCE: Science for the People
  2/1/2022
  

  "The Last Refuge of Scoundrels": E.O. Wilson's Support for Scientific Racism

  by Stacy Farina and Matthew Gibbons

  Evolutionary biology has long been used to promote the ideology that "races" are real and meaningful divisions of the human species. A recent controversy about a recently-deceased leader in the field shows that there is more work to be done to ensure that science no longer lends credibility to racism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/19/2021
  

  Can Skeletons Have Racial Identity?

  Forensic anthropologists have largely stuck with techniques for assigning geographic ancestry to skeletal remains. Recently, the origins of those techniques in last century's scientific racism have prompted some in the discipline to call for stopping the practice.

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• 7/25/2021
  

  The Legacies of Un-critical Race Theory at Berkeley

  by Tony Platt

  For most of its history, the University of California has been a bastion of un-critical race theory from Manifest Destiny to The Bell Curve. 

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• SOURCE: ArcDigital
  2/11/2021
  

  Phrenology Is Here To Stay

  by Courtney E. Thompson

  Liberal journalists have treated present-day exponents of phrenology as kooks. This is a dangerous dismissal of phrenology's origins among the 19th century intellectual elite which encourages false security that today's science is insulated from social currents of racism, sexism, or other power politics. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/27/2021
  

  The Logic of Eugenics Still Haunts Virginia

  Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Elizabeth Catte's book Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/30/19
  

  A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy

  Feauturing the reserach of historian Ibram X. Kendi.