Category:Scientific racism: Difference between revisions

'''Scientific racism''', sometimes referred to as '''race biology''',<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=29PyBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA355|title=A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation|last=Weitz|first=Eric D.|date=2015-04-27|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400866229|language=en}}</ref><ref>Signer, Michael Alan (2000). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6z21Nkb1S-8C&pg=PA202&dq= Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians]''. Indiana University Press. p. 202. {{ISBN|0253337399}}.</ref> is a [[Wikipedia:Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify [[Wikipedia:racism|racism]] (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, [[Wikipedia:racial superiority|racial superiority]], and [[Wikipedia:eugenics|eugenics]].<ref>"Ostensibly scientific": cf. Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross (eds.) 2003.The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences Cambridge University Press, p. 293 "Race has long played a powerful popular role in explaining social and cultural traits, often in ostensibly scientific terms"; Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper (eds.), ''The Social Science Encyclopedia'' (1996), "Racism", p. 716: "This [''[[sc.]] scientific''] racism entailed the use of 'scientific techniques', to sanction the belief in European and American racial Superiority"; ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Questions to Sociobiology'' (1998), "Race, theories of", p. 18: "Its exponents [''sc. of scientific racism''] tended to equate race with species and claimed that it constituted a scientific explanation of human history"; Terry Jay Ellingson, ''The myth of the noble savage'' (2001), 147ff. "In scientific racism, the racism was never very scientific; nor, it could at least be argued, was whatever met the qualifications of actual science ever very racist" (p. 151); Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy, ''A History of Anthropological Theory'' (2008), p. 152: "Scientific racism: Improper or incorrect science that actively or passively supports racism".</ref><ref name="SciRac_Gould">{{cite book|last=Gould|first=Stephen Jay|authorlink=Stephen Jay Gould|title=The Mismeasure of Man|publisher=W W Norton and Co.|year=1981|location=New York|pages=28–29|isbn=978-0-393-01489-1|ref=harv|quote=Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.|title-link=The Mismeasure of Man}}</ref><ref name="SciRac_CSI">{{cite journal|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|title=Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?|accessdate=1 December 2007|last=Kurtz|first=Paul|date=Sep 2004|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123123232/http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-09/scientific-ethics.html|archivedate=23 November 2007|quote=There have been abundant illustrations of pseudoscientific theories-monocausal theories of human behavior that were hailed as "scientific"-that have been applied with disastrous results. Examples: ... Many racists today point to IQ to justify a menial role for blacks in society and their opposition to affirmative action.|ref=harv}}</ref> Historically, scientific racism received credence throughout the scientific community, but it is no longer considered scientific.<ref name="SciRac_Gould"/><ref name="SciRac_CSI"/>