Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)
- Author
- Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University ([email protected])
- Published
- Wed 17 May 2017
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=f7e72562111324f25d083f3214922d7e&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.sceneonradio.org%2FSceneOnRadio
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
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