scientific racism 
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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.
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