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The Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to physical and cultural anthropology and is currently published by the Council for Social and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology, archaeology, etc. The journal aims to unify anthropology with biology.

It has been called a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment" and a "white supremacist journal", "scientific racism's keepers of the flame" a journal with a "racist orientation" and a "infamous racist journal", and "journal of 'scientific racism'"

Its foundation in 1960 may in part have been a response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education which ordered the desegregation of schools in the United States. It was originally published in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics.

Founders

• Robert Gayre, Scottish anthropologist and supporter of race science.
• Henry Garrett, Chair of Psychology at Columbia University from 1941 to 1955. A Virginia-born segregationist, Garrett was a key witness defending segregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Helped organize an international group of scholars dedicated to preventing race mixing, preserving segregation, and promoting the principles of early 20th century eugenics and "race hygiene."
• Roger Pearson Member of the Eugenics Society in 1963, became a fellow in 1977 and editor in 1978.
• Corrado Gini Wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927.
• Ottmar von Verschuer German human biologist and eugenicist primarily concerned with "racial hygiene" and twin research.
• Reginald Ruggles Gates

Editors

• Roger Pearson
• J. Gladykowska-Rzeczycka
• J. Balslev Jorgensen
• J.J. Helen Kaarma
• David de Laubenfels
• Richard Lynn
• T.L. Markey
• Umberto Melotti
• H.F. Mataré
• Clyde E. Noble
• Ralph Rowlett
• Frederick Streng
• Charles C. Susanne
• Volkmar Weiss

Criticism

Many of those who constitute the publication's contributors, Board of Directors, and publishers are connected to the academic hereditarian tradition. The journal has been criticized by some as being political and strongly right-leaning. The publisher counters that much of Anthropology is 'politicised' in the opposite way and that those who count amongst the most vocal critics of the journal often identify with the Radical tradition in Anthropology.

During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents of The Bell Curve publicized the fact that some of the works cited by Bell Curve authors Herrnstein and Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly. In the New York Review of Books, Charles Lane referred to The Bell Curve's "tainted sources," noting that seventeen researchers cited in the book's bibliography had contributed articles to, and ten of these seventeen had also been editors of, Mankind Quarterly, "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race." The journal stands by its tradition of publishing hereditarian perspective articles to this day, stating that "...this science has stood the test of time, and MQ is still prepared to publish controversial findings and theories". Pearson received over a million dollars in grants from the Pioneer Fund in the eighties and the nineties.

See Also

• Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies

References

1. Joe L. Kincheloe, et. al, Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, pg. 39
2. William H. Tucker, The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, University of Illinois Press, 2002, pg. 2
3. Ibrahim G. Aoudé, The ethnic studies story: politics and social movements in Hawaiʻi, University of Hawaii Press, 1999 , pg. 111
4. Kenneth Leech, Race, Church Publishing, Inc., 2005, pg. 14
5. Schaffer, Gavin "‘Scientific’ Racism Again?”:1 Reginald Gates, the Mankind Quarterly and the Question of “Race” in Science after the Second World War Journal of American Studies (2007), 41: 253-278 Cambridge University Press
6. Jackson, John P. (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education. NYU Press. ISBN 978-081474271-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)
7. Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby - International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology - Experts in the Service of Social Reform: SPSSI, Psychology, and Society, 1936-1996
8. Eugenics Society Members List
9. The Roots of Nazi Eugenics The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 175-180
10. e.g., Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
11. Roger Pearson, "Activist Lysenkoism: The Case of Barry Mehler." In Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe (Washington: Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1997).
12. ^ Tucker, William H. (2007). The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07463-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)
13. "The Bell Curve" and Its Sources, Harry F. Weyher, reply by Charles Lane
14. http://www.mankindquarterly.org/about.html
15. Mehler, Barry (July 7, 1998). Race Science and the Pioneer Fund Originally published as "The Funding of the Science" in Searchlight, No. 277.

Further reading

• Anderson, Scott; Anderson, Jon Lee (1986). Inside the League. Dodd, Mead. ISBN 978-0396085171. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Tucker, William H. (1996). The Science and Politics of Racial Research. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06560-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)
• Tucker, William H. (2009). The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03400-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); Unknown parameter |laydate= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |laysummary= ignored (help)

External links

• Official website

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