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The skull measurer's mistake : and other portraits of men and women who spoke out against racism / Sven Lindqvist ; translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.

Author/creator Lindqvist, Sven, 1932-2019
Other author/creatorTate, Joan.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©1997.
Description182 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleAntirasister. English
Contents The discovery of prejudices : Benjamin Franklin -- Whether a slave, by coming into England, becomes free? : Granville Sharp -- Why not? : Georg Lichtenberg -- The struggle against the slave trade begins : James Ramsay -- For Jews and Blacks : Henri Grégoire -- Doctor in Africa : Thomas Winterbottom -- The skull measurer's mistake : Friedrich Tiedemann -- Poet astray : William Howitt -- The three races of America : Alexis de Tocqueville -- The myth of the Anglo-Saxon master race : Charles Anderson -- Let the Chinese come! : Raphael Pumpelly -- Exterminating people is wrong : Langfield Ward --Anti-Semitism, the monster of national emotion : Theodor Mommsen -- A century of dishonor : Helen Hunt -- The silent South : George Cable -- White natives of Europe : William Babington -- How perilous is the yellow peril? : Jacques Novicow -- The dying negro : Joseph Conrad -- Equality or massacre : Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu -- The Miss Marple of anthropology : Mary Kingsley -- For a democratic South Africa : Olive Schreiner -- Denied heritage : Theophilus Scholes.
General noteFirst published in English by Albert Bonniers Forlag AB, Stockholm in 1995.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182).
LCCN 96040902
ISBN1565843630

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Joyner General Stacks HT1507 .L56 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold