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Back to EpisodesSkulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)
Season 2
Episode 8
Published 8 years, 7 months ago
Description
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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