Jan 30, 2017
“As St. Clair Drake explained, Du Bois’s approach contributed to a special genre of intellectual activity called racial vindication. This genre originated in the eighteenth century but eventually became a scientific assault against racial oppression. The vindicationist approach to science sought to disprove slander, answer pejorative allegations, and criticize so-called scientific generalizations about Africans and people of African descent.”
Painting Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Quote Source: Baker, Lee D. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
