Superior
The Return of Race Science
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Superior
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Hannah Melbourn
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Hannah Melbourn
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Angela Saini
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An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.
After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of intellectual racists and segregationists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s 1994 title The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.
If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas and considered race a social construct, it was an idea that still managed to somehow survive in the way scientists thought about human variation and genetics. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Angela Saini shows us how, again and again, even mainstream scientists cling to the idea that race is biologically real. As our understanding of complex traits like intelligence, and the effects of environmental and cultural influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between “races”—to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores, or to justify cultural assumptions—stubbornly persists.
At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a rigorous, much-needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of race science—and a powerful reminder that, biologically, we are all far more alike than different.
Is superior … obviously.
Saini, of course, has made an excellent argument about the stupidity of race science. Over and over we learn about bias, the shifting idea of what constitutes a “race”, and how people and scientists cherry pick, or use so-called truths to justify, to put it frankly, hate & prejudice.
By taking a deep time view, as well as a deep dive into the 19th, 20th & 21st century we see how it’s just all politics, and a need for some to feel superior. For instance Greeks in the US, whose whiteness was tied to going from poor migrants to middle class in 50 or so years.
It would be funny if not so serious the length some people go to, to justify their racist beliefs. Like suggesting ancient cultures that were advanced but died out, aliens, spontaneous evaluation from different hominids that just happen to both produce modern humans. Instead of just accepting the civilization in question are humans just as you are- capable of all that we are capable of!
We see peoples using unnamed genes or reworking race to explain things that would be more clearly and better explained with socio-economic differences, prejudice laws, systemic racism, and a history of racist policy or bias. Or how racist journals and academics not only rework data to confirm their beliefs but recite and quote each other making it seem like a large consensus when in fact it’s 10 people quoting the other people 20 times… how they use poor knowledge of science, gloss over other factors, or just general pride to gain traction.
It seems humans for so many reasons want a simple explanation or to categorize people. But why is not explained. What is explained is the institutions, co-opting of linguistics, culture, and science to ensure money, power, and populations are controlled for a select few. And it is enlightening.
This book is for anyone interested in history and wants to understand the legacy of academic racism and the continued impacts of othering.
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