The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism by Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate

The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism

Sven Lindqvist, Joan Tate

182 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective slow-paced

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In 1981, Stephen Jay Gould exposed the bad science behind nineteenth-century American studies that “proved” that Anglo-Saxons were superior because they had larger brains. In The Skull Measurer’s Mistake, Sven Lindqvist tells the story of Friedric...

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