The boomerang : how eugenics and racial science in the German colonies rebounded on Europe and the rest of the world

Date
2020
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
African Sun Media
Abstract
In 1936, the British-trained professor of zoology Harold Benjamin Fantham published an article titled “Some Race Problems in South Africa” in The Scientific Monthly.1 The opening section of the article provided detailed “physionomical” descriptions of the “Bushmen” and “Hottentots”, alongside accounts of the other “races” of South Africa.
Description
CITATION: Robins, S. 2020. The boomerang : how eugenics and racial science in the German colonies rebounded on Europe and the rest of the world, in Jansen, J. & Walters, C. (eds). 2020. Fault lines : a primer on race, science and society. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480495/02.
The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za
Keywords
Research -- Moral and ethical aspects, Race discrimination, Science -- Social aspects, Eugenics
Citation
Robins, S. 2020. The boomerang : how eugenics and racial science in the German colonies rebounded on Europe and the rest of the world, in Jansen, J. & Walters, C. (eds). 2020. Fault lines : a primer on race, science and society. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480495/02.