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At first glance, the term “scientific racism” appears both implausible and oxymoronic. But from the middle 1600s to the end of the Second World War, the various branches of pseudo-science purporting to substantiate the anatomical, biological and anthropological differences of the “races” had many adherents who were otherwise considered learned men and provided the underpinnings of slavery and Jim Crow.
Take Samuel A. Cartwright, a student of the eminent Philadelphian Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Cartwright studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before he authored “The diseases and physical peculiarities of the negro race.” In that 1851 treatise, his most famous discovery was “drapetomania”, or the mental illness that caused enslaved people to run away.
These so-called medical diagnoses would be laughable if it were not for the lasting damage these, and other supposed “maladies” endemic in enslaved Africans, caused in supporting claims of racial superiority. The Nazis took up where the earlier practitioners of scientific racism left off and studied American Jim Crow laws to develop their own racial codes used against Jews, and other “undesirables”. Some traces of scientific racism have even survived into the modern era with books like “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray espousing the intellectual inferiority of non-whites.
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Take Samuel A. Cartwright, a student of the eminent Philadelphian Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Cartwright studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before he authored “The diseases and physical peculiarities of the negro race.” In that 1851 treatise, his most famous discovery was “drapetomania”, or the mental illness that caused enslaved people to run away.
These so-called medical diagnoses would be laughable if it were not for the lasting damage these, and other supposed “maladies” endemic in enslaved Africans, caused in supporting claims of racial superiority. The Nazis took up where the earlier practitioners of scientific racism left off and studied American Jim Crow laws to develop their own racial codes used against Jews, and other “undesirables”. Some traces of scientific racism have even survived into the modern era with books like “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and political scientist Charles Murray espousing the intellectual inferiority of non-whites.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...A18a3F3?cvid=bb7ccf36c23b444f88654de749baffb1