Brain Damage and the Intellectual Defense of Inequality [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | S. Genovés, Charles A. Valentine, Herbert Aptheker, Michael R. Seltzer, Anselme Remy, James Richard Jaquith, Harry J. Jerison, Michel Panoff, J. Michael Hoffman, Gerald D. Berreman, Norman B. Henderson, Ashley Montagu, Diane K. Lewis, Bettylou Valentine |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 16:117-150 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201523 |
| Popis: | Our purpose is to expose the complicity of the human sciences in perpetuating inequality and to make a start toward ending this complicity. The learned debate about the nature of inequality in class and ethnically stratified societies is a spurious controversy. All major positions, ranging from biological determinism associated with conservative ideologies to environmentalism linked with liberal politics, are actually rationalizations for the status quo of intergroup relations. One key underlying idea shared among seemingly opposed experts is that the position of the oppressed stems from their own weaknesses. Another is that these alleged deficiencies are ractically unchangeable. A consensus has been developing that low-status groups suffer from organic damage and dysfunction of the central nervous system. This consensus is approaching orthodoxy with the construction of theoretical formulations such as Montagu's "sociogenic brain damage." There is grave danger that this orthodoxy will be employed to justi... |
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