Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

17/05/2017 48 min Temporada 2 Episodio 8
Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

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Episode Synopsis


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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