Scientific racism
description: misuse of the scientific method to justify racism
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Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind
by Paul Stob · 13 Apr 2026 · 332pp · 101,368 words
a more troubling way we talk about phrenology today. Even a quick search online will reveal that the Fowlers’ science is the poster child of scientific racism. With phrenology, reports one article, “promoters of anti-Black racism and white supremacy . . . co-opted the authority of science to justify racial inequality.” According to
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understood how to adapt Gall’s system to different people and causes. On the other hand, he is a poster child for the charges of scientific racism that followed phrenology into the twenty-first century. A proud slaveowner, he maintained that phrenology proved the supposed superiority of the white race. It’s
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Castiglia, Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), ch. 5. 13.“Scientific Racism,” Harvard University Library, n.d. guides.library.harvard.edu/scientificracism, accessed October 14, 2024; Martin Lund, “A Prehistory of
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Scientific Racism,” MIT Press Reader, September 10, 2024, thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory-of-scientific-racism/; “A History of Craniology in Race Science and Physical Anthropology,” Penn Museum, n.d., www.penn.museum/sites/morton
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
by Kathryn Paige Harden · 20 Sep 2021 · 375pp · 102,166 words
To avoid any mention of race leaves a vacuum that would be filled with errors and that would be interpreted as a tacit approval of scientific racism. At the same time, because discussions of genetics in relationship to class structure and to redistribution of resources have been poisoned by decades of race
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socioeconomic attainments from the racist rhetoric about differences between human groups. In this chapter, I aim to clarify why today’s genetically inflected incarnation of scientific racism is both empirically wrong and morally blinkered. I will first describe what geneticists mean by ancestry and why it is false to collapse the idea
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
by Carl Zimmer · 29 May 2018
led to a boom in sterilizations in the years that followed. In the 1920s, Goddard’s work with the US Army also continued to fuel scientific racism. Eugenicists pointed to the difference between black and white soldiers on the army tests as proof of hereditary differences in intelligence between the races, and
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War II, a number of other geneticists and anthropologists joined Dobzhansky’s campaign. Their efforts culminated in an official statement from the United Nations condemning scientific racism as baseless. But Dobzhansky’s new allies pushed the attack further than he had. They demanded scientists give up the term race altogether. It was
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, and others. 2015. “Biotechnology: A Prudent Path Forward for Genomic Engineering and Germline Gene Modification.” Science 348:36–38. Barkan, Elazar. 1992. The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States Between the World Wars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Barnes, L. Diane. 2013. Frederick Douglass: Reformer
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inheritance, 448, 451–52 and cumulative culture, 460–61, 465 and Du Bois’s research, 203 and paleogenetics, 225–26 and racial classifications, 196 and scientific racism, 206–7 and skin color, 201 and tracing lineages, 178 and wealth inequality, 470 See also paleoanthropology Anthropometric Laboratory, 290 antibiotic resistance, 141–42 antibodies
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and Goddard’s research, 75–79, 81–83, 86–90, 93, 99, 101–4, 163, 200, 304–5 and Penrose’s research, 118–19 and scientific racism, 93–96 and the Vineland Training School, 70–72 See also phenylketonuria (PKU) Feldman, Marcus, 454, 474 Festetics, Imre, 37 fetal alcohol syndrome, 305–6
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. nongenetic heredity, 478–80 and intelligence research, 291, 304–5 and The Kallikak Family, 86–91 Pearl Buck on, 114 research agenda, 76–79 and scientific racism, 237 Godspeed family, 159 Godzilla (film), 333 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 424 Goff, Stephen, 397 goiter, 306, 390 golden carpet shell clams, 398 The Good
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intelligence quotients (IQ), 313 intelligence tests, 77–78, 86, 89–90, 114, 128, 294–95, 297–300, 313 and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, 536–37 and scientific racism, 237 and in vitro gametogenesis, 548 International Summit on Human Gene Editing, 527 Intracellular Pangenesis (de Vries), 58 invasive species, 561, 571–72 in vitro
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and The Kallikak Family, 87 and livestock breeding, 281 and Morgan’s research, 99 and the Peloria plant, 422 and Penrose’s research, 123 and scientific racism, 95 and in vitro gametogenesis, 549 P element, 557 Peloria plant, 423–26, 439–40, 443, 474 Penrose, Lionel, 117–21, 121–23, 126–27
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Lewontin’s research, 207–9 origins of race concept, 17 racial classifications, 195–96, 208–10 racial hierarchies, 196 racial hygiene laws, 95, 198–202 scientific racism, 93–96, 206–7 and tracing lineages, 193–98 Rader, Evelyn, 157 Radiobiological Research Unit, 333–34 Ralph, Peter, 189 Ramon y Cajal, Santiago, 346
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
in Man ,” Fraser’s Magazine (1868), quoted in G. Jones , Social Darwinism , p. 102. 60 L.P. Curtis , Apes and Angels . 61 Barkan , Retreat of Scientific Racism . 62 L. Clark , Social Darwinism in France , pp. 154-58. 63 Mosse , Toward the Final Solution , pp. 58-61. 64 S. Gilman , Freud, Race, and
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. 18. 8 Hostadter , Social Darwinism in American Thought , and Bannister , Social Darwinism: Science and Myth . 9 Lombroso-Ferrera , Criminal Man , p. 183; Barkan , Retreat of Scientific Racism , pp. 105-06; Boller , American Thought in Transition; Mathiopoulos, History and Progress , p. 117. 10 Wood , Creation of the American Republic , p. 35. 11 Ibid
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. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1979. Barash, Jeffrey A. Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning . M. Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1988. Barkan, Elazar . The Retreat of Scientific Racism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992. Barker, Ernest . Traditions of Civility . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1922. Barnouw, Dagmar . Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity . University
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
by Stuart Ritchie · 20 Jul 2020
far-fetched theories about the entirely separate origins of different human races, were an international sensation and played a key role in the rise of scientific racism, the movement that attempted to split humans into a hierarchy of superior and inferior groups and helped fuel some of the worst horrors of the
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by Charles Murray · 28 Jan 2020 · 741pp · 199,502 words
but against the idea of race itself. Its most prominent spokesman was Franz Boas, a pioneering anthropologist and a fierce opponent of what he labeled “scientific racism.”2 A British anthropologist who studied under Boas, Ashley Montagu, took his mentor’s position to new levels of passion (“Race is the witchcraft, the
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race has been freighted with cultural baggage that has nothing to do with biological differences. The word carries with it the legacy of nineteenth-century scientific racism combined with Europe’s colonialism and America’s history of slavery and its aftermath. Scientifically, it is an error to think of races as primordial
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
by Derek S. Hoff · 30 May 2012
to restrain American manufacturing, unwise to do anything to discourage economic opportunity and growth within the empire.”26 Franklin is also well known for anticipating scientific racism and eugenics. He desired the preservation not only of the British Empire but also of an empire of Englishmen, a reactionary goal given the ethnic
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as the first colonies, but Manifest Destiny expanded these ideas, emerging in the second quarter of the nineteenth century as the product of several factors: scientific racism and the social construc- 40 chapter 1 tion of a unique and superior “Anglo-Saxon race”; the development of an American Romantic movement; confidence resulting
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Democratic Party.158 According to historian Thomas Hietala, Democrats’ recourse to Manifest Destiny reflected a “crisis of confidence” more than it did the rise of scientific racism—and central to the anxieties prompting western adventures were fears of population growth and modernization.159 Many Democrats, especially in the South, supported several Jef
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The 1965 Immigration (Hart-Celler) Act was primarily designed to end the racist immigration system erected in the 1920s. A legacy of earlycentury eugenics and scientific racism, the 1921–65 immigration regime discriminated against prospective immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe by assigning nations in those regions absurdly low quotas of immigrants
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Is Beautiful, 191, 223 Schumpeter, Joseph, 51, 92, 175, 230; Capi- index talism, Socialism, and Democracy, 281n100; long-term cycles, or waves, of economy, 274n17 scientific racism, 39–40, 157 Scott, Daryl, 156 Scott, William, 259n147 Scranton, William, 201 Scripps, Edward W., 63 Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems, Miami University
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
scientists and thus scientific approaches and solutions in the climate crisis. In truth, technological innovation is hindered by the refusal to acknowledge the ills of scientific racism and that eugenics is not science. If we do not grapple with how it could have been accepted as science, we are doomed to repeat
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us to how biostatistics are at the core of the race science theorization. Species thinking applied to humans is predated by a hundred years by scientific racism, the nomenclature of classification that Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus developed. The taxonomic impulse is the taxidermy impulse. Though it may seem intuitive to scientists that
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grievances mount. How can unwritten climate policies save us without acknowledgment of the violence of the Edenic origin story? To the world’s collective detriment, scientific racism is embedded within Western natural science, including climate science. Omitting race while it remains a material reality is both racist and unscientific. Western science has
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of the torrid zone were bound up in freedom debates. Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin, extrapolated on the theory to create the field of eugenics. Scientific racism undergirded white supremacy in its many nineteenth-century forms, including policy and public health. When Darwin set sail for the islands of the South Pacific
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botanical experiments, introducing cacao from Trinidad to plantations in Sri Lanka. Kew Gardens holds Espeut’s correspondence with the chief botanist in its archives. Again, scientific racism is embedded in the naming practices of eradication. There are important lessons to be garnered in Espeut’s folly regarding the ethics of animal control
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
that there are disparities in innate ability that break down along the socially constructed boundaries of race. This was part of a broader enterprise of scientific racism that reached its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with “scientific” arguments for eugenics programs made by eminent professors of genetics, evolution
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-over white supremacy with a patina of scientific jargon. “This idea of human biodiversity is a right-wing conspiracy theory,” says author and expert on “scientific” racism Angela Saini. “It’s a pseudoscientific idea about race that was debunked decades ago, many decades ago. We are one human species and that HBD
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this end, though he says, “I wouldn’t call myself a ‘eugenicist.’”160 At its heart, the delusion of HBD is about the same thing scientific racism has always been about: the idea that some kinds of people are inherently better than others. This ties in neatly with the central facts of
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like me.”35 The tech billionaires “read science fiction in their childhood and [they] appear unaware of the ideological underpinnings of their youthful entertainment: elitism, ‘scientific’ racism, eugenics, fascism and a blithe belief today in technology as the solution to societal problems.”36 As a professional—and successful—science fiction author, Stross
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/09/nationalist-moral-chauvinism/. NB: The genetic superiority of the minds of Ashkenazi Jews is an article of faith for adherents of modern forms of “scientific” racism like “human biodiversity.” As an Ashkenazi Jew myself, I can tell you this is certainly false. 143 Robin Hanson, “Reply to Moldbug,” Overcoming Bias, May
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
to precisely measurable, deterministic physical processes. . . . Positivist assumptions provided the epistemological foundations for Social Darwinism and pop-evolutionary notions of progress, as well as for scientific racism and imperialism. These tendencies coalesced in eugenics, the doctrine that human well-being could be improved and eventually perfected through the selective breeding of the
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academic rivals. Science is commonly blamed for intellectual movements that had a pseudoscientific patina, though the historical roots of those movements ran deep and wide. “Scientific racism,” the theory that races fall into an evolutionary hierarchy of mental sophistication with Northern Europeans at the top, is a prime example. It was popular
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Hitler a Darwinian?” (a common claim among creationists) with “The only reasonable answer to the question . . . is a very loud and unequivocal No!”34 Like “scientific racism,” the movement called Social Darwinism is often tendentiously attributed to science. When the concept of evolution became famous in the late 19th and early 20th
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exacerbated by, 78, 459n36 opposition to religion, 430, 436, 438 “primitive,” 102–3 quality of life and, 247, 248 romantic heroism and, 31, 165, 445 “scientific racism” and, 398 See also Marxism; Marxist guerrillas and terrorists Compstat program, 380 computation and consciousness, 426 and knowledge, 21 computers, delayed productivity growth from, 330
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d’Alembert, Jean-Baptiste, 10 Dante, 63 Darfur, 162 Darwin, Charles Argument from Design refuted by, 421 death of children of, 56 falsely tied to scientific racism, 398, 400, 486n32 falsely tied to Social Darwinism, 398–9, 400 on humans as single species, 398 and replicating systems and evolution, 18–19 See
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ideology of, 397 eugenics and, 399 Holocaust, 161, 397, 399, 430 intellectual fans of, 447 Nietzsche as influence on, 445 public health invoked by, 399 “scientific racism” of, 397–8 See also Germany; Hitler, Adolf Negativity bias, 47–8, 293 Negroponte, John, 310 Nemirow, Jason, 140 neo-fascism, 419, 448, 451 neo
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Africans, 397 police shootings of African Americans, 215–16, 471n6 public opinion in the U.S., 216–17, 216, 471n8 of Romans toward Britons, 397 “scientific racism” misdescribed, 397–8, 486n32 Trump’s election and, 339–40 Radelet, Steven, 59, 90, 91, 93, 459n16 radioactive fallout, 133–4, 315 Radner, Gilda, 266
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee · 16 May 2016 · 824pp · 218,333 words
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch · 1 Jan 1978
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould · 1 Jan 1977 · 266pp · 76,299 words
War Without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR
by John Dower · 11 Apr 1986 · 516pp · 159,734 words
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 96,803 words
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology)
by Geoffrey C. Bowker · 24 Aug 2000
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
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