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News and Views: Political Correctness Run Amok; School Students Dishonor a Genius of Science
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
08-31-2001
News and Views: Political Correctness Run Amok; School Students Dishonor a
Genius of Science
Louis Agassiz, the celebrated Swiss-born Harvard naturalist of the
nineteenth century, was a major figure in establishing a view of race which
came to be almost universally accepted in Western nations. The standard
opinion was that the races of mankind were created separately and that they
had bee...
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