News and Views: The Father of Scientific Racism

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: June 30, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Martin Zapata
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
06-30-1995
News and Views: The Father of Scientific Racism.

Louis Agassiz, professor at Harvard University during the mid-nineteenth century, was one of the world's most respected scientists. His works on the evolution of the Ice Age were widely heralded as the creation of scientific genius. However, Agassiz's theories on the biological inferiority of the Negro were driven more by personal racism than scientific rigor. Yet his widely cited views provided scholarly support for the enduring stereotype of the "simple-minded darkie."

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