Moral and physiological traits were fused onto racialized types to ground genetic universal claims

Evidence

In the first chapter of the history that the others have compiled for me, the foundation of cannibalism has been made eminently plain in order that I may not lose sight of it. My chromosomes were supposed to have a few thicker or thinner genes representing cannibalism. In addition to the sex-linked, the scholars had now discovered the raciallinked. What a shameful science! — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial race epistemology merged physical traits with moral character assessments; Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437; Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits (+8 more)

Related

• Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits (similarity 0.91)
• Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. (similarity 0.88)
• Progress in the racial myth is moving cannibalism to the past tense (similarity 0.82)
• Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies (similarity 0.80)
• Respected scientists published absurd race-based claims during World War I (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial race epistemology merged physical traits with moral character assessments #corroborates (0.95)
• Racist science invented ‘racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes. #exemplifies (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 437
• Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits #exemplifies (0.80)
• Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions #expands (0.75)
• Colonial moral categories coded racialized peoples’ aspirations as dangerous affective excess #exemplifies (0.75)
• Ancestral-calling logic forces immorality to be preserved across generations #expands (0.75)
• Nineteenth-century scientific racism supplied latent Orientalism’s biological grounding #expands (0.70)
• Philological reduction of language legitimates claims connecting race to mind and character. #expands (0.70)
• Evolutionist doctrines translated middle-class ambition into biological race hierarchy #exemplifies (0.70)