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Ethnic Studies
Ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary study of racialized peoples in the across the world in relation to ethnicity. It evolved in the second half of the 20th century partly in response to charges that traditional disciplines such as anthropology, history, English, ethnology, Asian studies, and orientalism were imbued with an inherently eurocentric perspective. Ethnic Studies was created to teach the stories, histories, struggles and triumphs of people of color on their own terms.
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The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.
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― H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
― H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
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Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found
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― On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
― On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
