Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 373 (6554) ◽  
pp. 499.2-499
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Racism

“La Idea Mueve” (The Idea Moves Us)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela González
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment

The concluding chapter explains how race had served defenders of slavery by providing them with an excuse to hold men and women in bondage. For their inhumane treatment of Africans during the Age of Enlightenment to be justified, their humanity needed to be ideologically stripped away—scientific racism served that purpose. Racist theories also kept other groups in subaltern positions. Mexicans with mestizo, mulatto, and Indian genealogies experienced racialization in the United States. Simply put, Americans, proud of their liberal political heritage and their democratic institutions, needed to see oppressed groups as somehow sub-human in order to reconcile their political beliefs with the nation’s less than egalitarian realities. It is for this reason that the politics of redemption practiced by Mexican immigrant and Mexican American activists merits attention.

scholarly journals Historical Scientific Racism and Psychiatric Publications: A Necessary International Anti-racist Code of Ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 070674372110206
Author(s):  
Imen Ben-Cheikh ◽  
Roberto Beneduce ◽  
Jaswant Guzder ◽  
Sushrut Jadhav ◽  
Azaad Kassam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Scientific Racism

Scientific Racism in Modern America, 1870s–1990s

Prospects ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 471-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamilton Cravens
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
National Population

In post-Darwinian times, Americans have usually thought of the national population as divided into many distinct races and ethnic groups. The notions and definitions they have used for a race and an ethnic group have varied from one age to another. Although Americans have not needed the resources of science to believe that some races and ethnic groups are superior to others, in these times science has become a powerful symbol of cultural authority. For the racist, the assistance of science has often been useful. In this essay, it is important to distinguish between the scientific discourse on race and ethnicity whose participants do not necessarily assume that groups differ in value, and that of scientific racism, whose participants might or might not be scientists, but who have consistently assumed that science proves the existence of permanent group differences and legitimates the assertion that some groups are inherently superior to others. Here we shall discuss the latter.

Savage numbers and the evolution of civilization in Victorian prehistory

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. BARANY
Keyword(s):  
Human Sciences ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Victorian Science

AbstractThis paper identifies ‘savage numbers’ – number-like or number-replacing concepts and practices attributed to peoples viewed as civilizationally inferior – as a crucial and hitherto unrecognized body of evidence in the first two decades of the Victorian science of prehistory. It traces the changing and often ambivalent status of savage numbers in the period after the 1858–1859 ‘time revolution’ in the human sciences by following successive reappropriations of an iconic 1853 story from Francis Galton's African travels. In response to a fundamental lack of physical evidence concerning prehistoric men, savage numbers offered a readily available body of data that helped scholars envisage great extremes of civilizational lowliness in a way that was at once analysable and comparable, and anecdotes like Galton's made those data vivid and compelling. Moreover, they provided a simple and direct means of conceiving of the progressive scale of civilizational development, uniting societies and races past and present, at the heart of Victorian scientific racism.

Hospitality networks, British travel writers, and the dissemination of competing Transylvanian claims to civilization, 1830s–1930s

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 612-632
Author(s):  
Sacha E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Time Of Travel

Hungarian, Saxon, and Romanian nationalist activists in Transylvania disseminated competing claims to “Westernness” by swaying visiting British travel writers' descriptions through hospitality networks that guided what writers saw and heard, assuring that travelers favored the nationalists' classifications of the region's ethnicities. Although the qualities British travelers valued varied depending on individual differences and intellectual currents such as enlightened reform, scientific racism, and the romantic revival, travelers consistently ascribed the qualities they best favored to the nationality on whose hospitality they relied. Wealth and time of travel determined which hospitality networks travelers favored. The Hungarian noble elites hosted most travelers until 1918, when the newly dominant Romanian nobility replaced them. Throughout, peasant voices especially remained marginalized.

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