Racist science invented ā€˜racial-linked’ genes for cannibalism alongside sex-linked genes.

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

Categorization

  • XREF: Grounds the ā€˜racial-linked gene’ absurdity the reader can trace across 19th-century racial science. — connects to: Progress in the racial myth is moving cannibalism to the past tense; Racist science invented chromosomal genes for racial traits; Moral and physiological traits were fused onto racialized types to ground genetic universal claims (+2 more)