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Book Review: Changing Concepts Of Race In Britain And The United States Between The World Wars.
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Scientific racism claims that biological inheritance determines the character and behavior of social groups we identify as races. Despite its history of oppression and genocide, the scientific defense of racial inequality demonstrates a disturbing persistence. Murphy Ballen’s study of scientific ....
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....hropology suited a conservative colonial policy of indirect rule (p.55). Ballen is on firmer ground in the United States, where Franz Boas challenged conventional ideas about fixed racial types in the 1890s. Boas and his students, principally Melville Herskovitz, Otto Klineberg, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict, became champions of the primacy of culture over biology in explaining human behavior (p.55). Ballen discovered that Ruth Benedict's critiques of racism in the 1930s were written in clos.... |
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