- Aug 13, 2025
- 00:03:09
Research Reels: Historicizing the Liberal Antiracism of Cultural Evolution
In this Research Reel, alumnus Postdoctoral Researcher Cameron Brinitzer presents his paper on the origins of cultural evolution theory in the US-American debates on race and intelligence of the 1960s. Despite being developed as a response to the racism of postwar genetics, he argues that its liberal conception of racism makes it incapable of refuting scientific racism.
Publication
- Brinitzer, Cameron. "Historicizing the Liberal Antiracism of Cultural Evolution." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46, no. 4 (2024): Article 46. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-59C1-0.
Copyrights
Produced by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Image: Isochron map of the "spread of early farming from the Near East to Europe," in L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and M. W. Feldman, Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A Quantitative Approach, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1981), p. 43.
Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Vessel One (CC BY-NC 4.0)