What does SR stand for?

Scientific Racism (pseudoscience)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

By the 1920s, scientific racism was already facing intellectual resistance, perhaps most insistently from Catholics such as Hilaire Belloc, and its later association with Nazism eventually brought about its near complete demise.

Chosen people: The Israel test by George Gilder: how to atone for ...

Similarly, he later bucks conventional wisdom by maintaining the Enlightenment has been too simplistically equated with secularism and thereby held overly responsible for the emergence of so-called scientific racism during the mid-nineteenth century.

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic ...

Though several black authors wrote positively of environmental hygiene, contrasting in some cases domestic order with the so-called slovenliness that had resulted from the degradation of slavery, the rise of social Darwinism and scientific racism drove a wedge between black intellectuals and conservationism.

African American Environmental Thought: Foundations

The exclusion of West Indians from the highest ranks of the Gold Coast's administration reflected the completion of a larger shift in Western racial thought, most powerfully typified by the development of scientific racism, which was steadily underway by the second half of the 19th century.

Becoming 'European': West Indian officers in British West Africa were ...

Malik mounts an impressive defence of Enlightenment rationalism and universalism, pointing out that scientific racism was, in fact, a 19th-century invention.

It's not a black and white issue

As Waters advances, mulattoes in English plays are themselves examples and results of the rise of scientific racism and growing concerns about racial purity.

Hazel Waters. Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of ...

His most recent book is titled The Funding of Scientific Racism.

The ideology of racism: misusing science to justify racial ...

But it does raise a question: Why must Darwin's defenders constantly resort to attacking straw men instead of confronting his crucial role in the formation of so-called scientific racism and eugenics?

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