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    Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical inferiority

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    Date
    2019
    Author
    Evans, Jazmin Antwynette
    Advisor
    Nehusi, Kimani S. K.
    Department
    African American Studies
    Subject
    History, African
    African American Studies
    African Studies
    African Inferiority
    Scientific Racism
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/1180
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/1162
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    Scientific Racism was a method used by some to legitimize racist social thought without any compelling scientific evidence. This study seeks to identify, through the Afrocentric Paradigm, some of these studies and how they have influenced the modern western institution of medicine. It is also the aim of this research to examine the ways Africans were exploited by the western institution of medicine to progress the field. Drawing on The Post Traumatic Slave Theory, I will examine how modern-day Africans in America are affected by the experiences of enslaved Africans.
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