The skull measurer's mistake1997

In 1981, Stephen Jay Gould exposed the bad science behind nineteenth-century American studies that proved that Anglo-Saxons were superior because they had larger brains. In The Skull Measurer s Mistake, Sven Lindqvist tells the story of Friedrich Tiedemann, the nineteenth-century German doctor who dared to speak out against such racist science when it was first practiced. Often the history of racism is reduced to the study of racists. Less well known are the stories of those who argued and fought against prejudice and persecution. In this unique book, Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author of internationally acclaimed books on Africa, China, and Latin America, profiles more than twenty nineteenth-century men and women who, while not themselves victims of racism, went against the temper of the time...