The first part of Dr Billig's article deals with the racial theories of two important British psychologists, Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Their ideas, which had a significant influence on the eugenics movement in Britain, were passed off as ‘scientific’ but were derived from preconceived notions about the inherent racial inferiority of ‘the lower races of man’.
The origins of race psychology—I
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