Tag: African Americans
Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos
“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.”
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”
On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth
Given evolution’s racist baggage, you might think the theory’s proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of “white supremacy.”
Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month
Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no.