Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
Fri 24 Jul
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9.30 AM Los Angeles | 12.30 PM New York | 5.30 PM London Charting the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science, and much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science.
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24 Jul 2020, 17:30 BST
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An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.
After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.
If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists…
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