“‘Scientific’ Racism Again?”:1 Reginald Gates, the Mankind Quarterly and the Question of “Race” in Science after the Second World War

@article{Schaffer2007ScientificRA,
  title={“‘Scientific’ Racism Again?”:1 Reginald Gates, the Mankind Quarterly and the Question of “Race” in Science after the Second World War},
  author={Gavin Schaffer},
  journal={Journal of American Studies},
  year={2007},
  volume={41},
  pages={253 - 278}
}
Biologist and botanist Reginald Gates is mainly remembered as a staunch scientific conservative, a defender of racial theory and fierce opponent of racial mixing. In post-war Britain and America, Gates's racial views made him something of a pariah. This article explores Gates's post-war career as a micro-historical analysis of racial science and society after the Second World War. It examines the relationship between scientific racists and segregationists in the US, especially concerning the… 
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      Barkan has concluded that despite the decline of biometrics, both approaches combined to fundamentally alter thinking on '' race
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