The dark heart of race science… and why it’s nonsense.
Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That’s certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would have you believe. Portraying themselves as brave defenders of the inconvenient truth, this group took the revival of ‘race science’ from alt-right online message boards into mainstream academic journals. They seek to justify raging social inequalities from poverty to incarceration rates with a simple message: some people are just born to be poor. There’s just one problem… race science isn’t real.
The first Europeans had dark skin and black curly hair. Culture was born in Africa, not Western Europe. Gavin Evans examines the latest research on how intelligence develops and laying out new discoveries in genetics, palaeontology, archaeology and anthropology to unearth the truth about our shared past. Skin Deep stands up to the pseudo-science deployed to justify colonial rule, the apartheid regime and the vast inequalities that persist today. As race dominates the political agenda, it’s time to put the hateful myths about it to bed.
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- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Foreword
- 1 ⢠What is scientific racism?
- 2 ⢠Are we smarter than our ancestors?
- 3 ⢠Why did humans migrate?
- 4 ⢠Is Africa really âbackwardâ?
- 5 ⢠Where did âscientificâ racism come from?
- 6 ⢠Are race groups real?
- 7 ⢠Can white men jump and black men swim?
- 8 ⢠Are there race-based intelligence genes?
- 9 ⢠What is IQ and is it hardwired?
- 10 ⢠What can twins tell us about nature and nurture?
- 11 ⢠Do rising IQs suggest genetic or environmental change?
- 12 ⢠The Bell Curve: whatâs it all about and why is it back?
- 13 ⢠Are Jews smarter than everyone else?
- 14 ⢠Do some populations have different brains from others?
- 15 ⢠Is race science making a comeback?
- 16 ⢠Race, genes and intelligence: where next?
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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