Manʹs most dangerous myth : the fallacy of race / by M.F. Ashley-Montagu ; with a foreword by Aldous Huxley.

  • Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999.
Date:
1945
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    It is as a contribution towards such an end from a scientist, who is a student both of human culture and human biology, that the present volume is offered. It may appear to some that I have been a little hard on the physical anthropologists. I can only plead that as a physical anthropologist myself I believe it is high time that the tradi tional conception of race held by my professional brethren be dealt with frankly. Friends can afford to be frank, let enemies be cautious. Much of the material presented in this volume has ap peared separately in the form of articles published under the following titles and in the following journals: The Problem of Race, the New York Times, 13 August 1939 (reprinted in the Teaching Biologist, IX [1939], 25-26); Race and Kindred Delusions, Equality, I (1939), 20-24; Should We Ignore Racial Differences? Town Meeting, (1939), pp. 3-9; The Socio-Biology of Man, the Scientific Monthly, L (1940), 483-90; Problems and Methods Relating to the Study of Race, Psychiatry, III (1941), 493-506; Race, Caste and Scientific Mehod, IV (1941), 337-38; The Concept of Race in the Light of Genetics, the journal of Heredity, XXXII (1941), 243-47; The Genetical Theory of Race, and An thropological Method, American Anthropologist, XLIV (1942), 369-75. All these articles have been thoroughly re written and revised. To the editors and proprietors of the journals in which they originally appeared I am grateful for permission to make use of them in the writing of the present volume. Professors Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict of the Depart ment of Anthropology, Otto Klineberg of the Department of Psychology, and Robert K. Merton of the Department of So ciology, all of Columbia University; Professor E. G. Conklin of Princeton and Professor Conway Zirkle of the Department of Botany, University of Pennsylvania, have read the follow ing pages in manuscript and have made many suggestions for its improvement. For this service I am deeply grateful to each of them, as I am to Mr. Aldous Huxley for his excellent