Race in the Age of Democracy

Scientific racism presents us with a paradox. It provided the justification for some of the most barbarous acts committed by humankind. Read by a generation which knows of the horrors of Auschwitz, Robert Knox’s assessment of ‘the dark races’ still chills the heart: What signify these dark races to us? Who cares particularly for the Negro, or the Hottentot or the Kaffir? These latter have proved a very troublesome race, and the sooner they are put out of the way the better... Destined by the nature of their race to run, like all other animals, a certain limited course of existence, it matters little how their extinction is brought about.

Democracy · Environmental ethics · Extinction (optical mineralogy) · Optics · Physics · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society

• Race and empire in British politics

  Paul B Rich•Race and empire in British politics•1986

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• We Europeans

  Julian Huxley•We Europeans•1970

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• In the Name of Eugenics

  Daniel J Kevles•In the Name of Eugenics•1998

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• The races of men

  Ronald Knox, Robert Knox•The races of men: A fragment.•1850

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