Seeing White Podcast - Skulls and Skin
S2 Ep8
We are happy to share another episode of the Seeing White podcast. This episode explores the way science contributed to our understanding of race and ethnicity. Whether in parish ministry, scholarship or activism, our assumptions about the value we have has humans enters into the work we do. By putting racial assumptions under the microscope, we can see that the "objectivity" of science may not have been so objective after all! Let us know what you think! Please like, subscribe and share with others.
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S2 E8: Skulls and Skin
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Image: Skulls in the Samuel Morton Collection, University of Pennsylvania Museum. Photo by John Biewen
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Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
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