🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists **

"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"

🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-the-racist-study-of-skulls-gripped-victorian-britains-scientists-262280.

#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Phrenology #Universities #ScientificRacism #Racism #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons @science

If anyone has the energy to critically appraise this article, please feel free to have at it. ⚔️

Note: I think the partial redaction of the chart was probably accidental; the unredacted image is here (original link is 404).

#usPol #racism #scientificRacism

One of the most telling parts of the horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeting #Smithsonian is its defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

I'm reading about phrenology, its implications during the Victorian times, and how it lead to a lot of policies in the anglosphere.

And the Nazis took lessons from American scientific racism to kick-start the holocaust. Yeah, the first camps were for socialists and others seeking equity, but the game got going by way of American social design.

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Time is a flat circle.

#phrenology #ScientificRacism #Nazism #Nazis #USPol #Racism

Scientific Racism, Eugenics, literally believing non-Europeans were a different species, has a long history and thrived with government funding for centuries. By 1921, California's eugenics program accounted for 80% of sterilizations nationwide, didn't end until 1979. The pseudo-science of eugenics permeates medical education and practice, influence law, policing, and adjudication to this day.

The Racist History of the Body Mass Index (BMI)
Taylor Rae Almonte-Roman
#BlackMastodon #ScientificRacism #Eugenics
https://www.taylorraealmonte.com/newsletter/the-racist-history-of-bmi