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Abstract The late 1980s witnessed a revival of public interest in scientific racism on North American campuses. The media gave broad coverage to research by scholars in the United States and Canada that attempted to establish a scientific basis for classifying humans into “superior” and “inferior” genetic groups. For example, J. Philippe
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Abstract The late 1980s witnessed a revival of public interest in scientific racism on North American campuses. The media gave broad coverage to research by scholars in the United States and Canada that attempted to establish a scientific basis for classifying humans into “superior” and “inferior” genetic groups. For example, J. Philippe
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The Retreat of Scientific Racism
1991This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race ...
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Scientific Racism: The Cloak of Objectivity
Journal of Social Issues, 1991This article reviews an application of sociobiological perspectives on “racial” differences, focusing on the work of J. P. Rushton. Rushton has concluded that, as a result of evolutionary processes, the three major “racial” groups may be hierarchically ranked such that Mongoloids > Caucasoids > Negroids.
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The Scientific Revolt Against Racism
1997Abstract ALL ATTEMPTS to construct any theory of history or civilization upon racial theory, all attempts to describe accurately the differences of character, temperament, and intelligence among the races, have been failures. Race theory has frequently lent itself to the crudest kind of manipulation by the people who wished to justify a ...
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Scientific racism, popular racism and the discourse of the Gypsy Lore Society
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2015ABSTRACTScientific racism continued to be the guiding paradigm of the oldest scholarly association for the study of Gypsies well into the 1970s. It is important to acknowledge and analyse this when considering the continuing influence of racism on policy towards Roma.
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W.E.B. DuBois's Challenge to Scientific Racism
Journal of Black Studies, 1981In 1929 several hundred people gathered in Chicago's North Hall to witness a debate on the question, "Should the Negro Be Encouraged to Cultural Equality?" The affirmative position was argued by W.E.B. DuBois. His opponent was Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, Harvard Ph.D. and author of dozens of popular articles and twenty-two books.
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Scientific racism without scientific racists
The common narrative of the life of this algorithm is framed as one of linear progress: The coefficient was added in the late 1990s due to erroneous, racist ideas about biology and race; the coefficient was removed in 2022 because now we know better. Through interviews with clinicians and analysis of literature and archival documents, this dissertationopenaire +1 more source
Scientific Racism: Reflections on Peer Review, Science and Ideology
Social Science & Medicine, 1990The scholars who use Social Science & Medicine in their research and teaching, who publish their work in it, participate in its peer review of manuscripts, and attend its conferences belong to various nationalities, disciplines, and cultural traditions.
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