Article ID: CBB000610214

Race-Mixing and Science in the United States (2003)

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Scientific racism was widely used as a justification to oppose race-mixing in the United States. Historians have justly criticized this abuse of science, but have overlooked some of the important ways in which science was used in the 1930s and 1940s to overturn scientific racism and opposition to race-mixing. Of particular importance was the cultural anthropology of Franz Boas and the evolutionary biology of Theodosius Dobzhansky, which supplied arguments against racism and fundamentally altered the scientific understanding of race.

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Description On the use of science to oppose racism and attitudes against race-mixing.


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Authors & Contributors
Dorr, Gregory Michael
Blatt, Jessica
McCoskey, Denise Eileen
Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy
Zumwalt, Rosemany Lévy
Willis, William Shedrick
Concepts
Science and race
Eugenics
Anthropology
African Americans and science
African Americans
Racism
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
20th century
Places
United States
Virginia (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
South America
Germany
Alabama (U.S.)
Institutions
Columbia University
UNESCO
Social Science Research Council
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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