Two faces of earnest A. Hooton
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8316660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugene Giles (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 149 |
| Issue | S55 |
| Pages | 105-113 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.22162 |
| PMID | 23076593 |
| OpenAlex | W2062268172 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
The American Anthropological Association's multimedia project, “Race: Are We So Different?” alleges that Earnest A. Hooton (1887–1954) of Harvard University was a racist eugenicist who “perhaps more than any other scientist of his time... did more to establish racial stereotypes...” and infers racism from his having sat on a National Research Council Committee on the Negro in the 1920s. I take issue with this perspective to argue against Hooton as a racist by exploring Hooton's relationship with African American students, particularly Caroline Bond Day, and with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when it awarded a medal to Charles R. Drew, M.D. In the heyday of eugenics, Hooton was an atypical eugenicist in espousing a resolutely nonracial view of the woes of humankind perpetuated by what he considered the biologically unfit. As eugenics and Nazism became conflated in the late 1930s, Hooton hewed to a path that was more antiracist than many of his anthropological colleagues and publicly disputed Nazi racial ideology. Am J Phys Anthropol 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Art history · Eugenics · Ideology · Medal · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |