Africans “leade a beastly kind of life, being utterly destitute of the use of reason, of dexterities of wit, and of all arts... . [They] behave themselves, as if they had continually lived in a Forest among wild beasts” said Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in 1529.
Well, science as a coherent method is, yes. Not surprising that it sought to explain well-entrenched prejudices. They couldn't survive it for long though.
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Yeah it couldn't survive it for. Are you kidding? 2Oth century didn't happen? No scientist is trying to resurect the essentialist race concept in today post genomics age ?
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Long in historical terms! We have got steadily less and less racist as we've understood more and more about our origins, connections, biology generally and science does not support racial superiority/inferiority claims. Are there reputable scientists trying to do this now?
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James watson. Op-ed in NYT on race with links to GWAS on education. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002716215586558 … (if you are interest about the resurgence of race thinking in science)
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https://twitter.com/pp0196/status/1003445894296064001 … (if youu are interest about the genealogy of western scientific racism)
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