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Race and Intelligence, Part 2

11/27/2018

 
​            In this episode, we continue the series on race and intelligence by heading across the pond to discuss work of the knighted psychologist, Sir Cyril Burt, and the two British ex-pats who worked in the U.S., psychometrician Raymond Cattell and anthropologist Ashley Montagu.
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Some Resources:
  1. Cattell, R. B. (1933). Psychology and social progress: Mankind and destiny from the standpoint of a scientist. London: C.W. Daniel.
  2. Dobzhansky, T. and M. F. Ashley Montagu. (1947). Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind. Science, 105(2736), 587-90.
  3. Jensen, A. R. (1974). Kinship correlations reported by Sir Cyril Burt. Behavior Genetics, 4(1), 1-28.
  4. Kamin, Leon J. (1974). The Science and Politics of I.Q. Social Research 41(3), 387-425.
  5. For those who never saw him, here’s Montagu talking anthropology, although nothing to do with race: Ashley Montagu on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (Sept. 13, 1974).
  6. Montagu, Ashley. (1962). The Concept of Race. American Anthropologist 64(5), 919-28.
  7. Montagu, Ashley, ed. (1974). Race and IQ. New York: Oxford University Press.
  8. Montagu, M.F.A. (1942). Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race. New York: Columbia University Press.
  9. Montagu, MF Ashley. (1945). Intelligence of Northern Negroes and Southern Whites in the First World War. The American Journal of Psychology 58(2), 161-88.
  10. Sperling, Susan. (2000). Ashley Montagu (1905–1999). American Anthropologist 102(3), 583-88.
  11. Thompson, Matthew. (1998). The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, c.1870-1959. New York: Oxford-Clarendon Press.
  12. Tucker, W. H. (2010). The Cattell controversy: Race, science, and ideology. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Race and Health Inequality in Africa

11/9/2018

 
Speaking of Race · 25 Health Inequality In Africa, Interview With Melissa Graboyes
​          In today’s episode, we travel to East Africa with Dr. Melissa Graboyes, a historian of medicine. Melissa talks with us about medical experimentation in East Africa during the colonial period, race-based health inequality in those parts of the world today, and how it was that prisoners in Zanzibar subverted racial categories through food! 
Some resources for this episode:
  1. ​Melissa’s professional website
  2. Johanna Crane, Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science
  3. Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
  4. Melissa’s book, The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940–2014
  5. Melissa’s articles, Chappati Complaints and Biriani Cravings: The Aesthetics of Food in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, Journal of Eastern African Studies, May 2011: 313-328
  6. “Searching for a Well Fed Swahili: Diet Creation in Colonial Zanzibari Institutions, 1935,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. Forthcoming.
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