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

by Sven Lindqvist

Book Overview

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 Friedrich Tiedemann, the nineteenth-century German doctor who dared to speak out against such racist science when it was first practiced.

Often the history of racism is reduced to the study of racists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565843630
• ISBN13: 9781565843639
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.7"