Agassiz’s polygenist research underwrote racism that outlived scientific racism as a doctrine

Evidence

My blood was now boiling. I wanted to stand up and scream, “He is not invisible!” He had a family who loved him then, and loves him now. I was so incensed. How dare they water down Agassiz’s “science” and not name it for what it was: violent lies that fueled Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and apartheid as well as the systemic racism that to this day kills people of color. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 595

I was so incensed. How dare they water down Agassiz’s “science” and not name it for what it was: violent lies that fueled Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and apartheid as well as the systemic racism that to this day kills people of color. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 595

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that Agassiz’s ‘science’ fueled Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and apartheid is a testable causal chain worth verifying and citing in the reparations argument.
• QUESTION: Is the causal link from Agassiz’s polygenism to the Holocaust and apartheid historically established, or asserted here rhetorically?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 595