Anténor Firmin challenged anthropology’s racist roots 150 years ago

In The Equality of the Human Races, Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin showed that science did not support division among the races.

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Anténor Firmin challenged anthropology’s racist roots 150 years ago
The Haitian scholar showed that science didn’t support white supremacy
“Human beings everywhere are endowed with the same qualities and defects, without distinctions based on color or anatomical shape,” Firmin wrote in French in his 1885 book, The Equality of the Human Races. “The races are equal.”
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Anténor Firmin challenged anthropology’s racist roots 150 years ago

In The Equality of the Human Races, Haitian scholar Anténor Firmin showed that science did not support division among the races.

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Anténor Firmin, un antropólogo haitiano silenciado por 150 años - The Clinic Online

El historiador José Bengoa rescata la figura del intelectual haitiano y autor de 'La igualdad de las razas humanas', que se rebeló contra un racismo científico que hablaba de humanos y humanoides en la Francia del siglo XIX. Un sesgo oscuro que persiste hasta hoy en la cuestión migrante, lamenta el fundador de la carrera de antropología en la Academia de Humanismo Cristiano.

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