Agassiz documented the very Black features he claimed to find repulsive

Evidence

Agassiz was singularly focused on perceived physical differences between whites and blacks. He had written, with a frightening lack of humanity, about being repulsed by Black people’s “thick lips and grimacing teeth, the wool on their head, their bent knees, their elongated hands, their large, curved nails, and especially the livid color of their palms.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1062

Categorization

• BMF: Not a clean match to any in the listed library. Agassiz’s documenting of features he reviles vaguely resonates with the photographers’ detached cataloguing in Goon Squad, but the link is too loose to claim. Suggest The Half Has Never Been Told (Edward Baptist) as a reading-list addition for the economics-meets-racism frame.