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145-134 Project-Based Communication Skills
Conference Paper: “Phrenology and Racism”
For the PBCS Conference: Interests of a Generation- Making the World a better place
By Candy Yuen. 28 May 2003
Although there has been progress, racism and racial discrimination are very far from being eliminated. ...
--Hector Charry-Samper
Phrenology was introduced as a supposedly scientific medical discipline by the Austrian physicist Franz Joseph Gall, but its easy application by self-taught experts quickly led to its use by quacks for commercial exploitation of gullible persons, very much like astrology, palm-reading, tarot and similar esoteric approaches. ...
COMMENTARY
LAW AND PHRENOLOGY
Pierre Schlag *
This Commentary explores the nineteenth-century pseudo-science of phrenology as a way of gaining insight into the intellectual organization of American law. ... Both phrenology and law emerged as disciplinary knowledges through attempts to cast them in the form of sciences. In both cases, the "sciences" were aesthetically organized around a fundamental ontology of reifications and animisms -"faculties" in the case of phrenology, "doctrines" and "principles" in the case of law. ... Both the similarities and the differences between phrenology and law lead to a fundamental question: does the discipline of law know anything, and if so, what? ... 1
In 1840, phrenology was a confident science, promising clear and certain knowledge concerning the mental attributes and behaviors of human beings. ...
Reading phrenology
As a wide-spread cultural phenomena, phrenology coloured many aspects of life in the 19th century. ...
Scientific Racism, Character, and American Fiction
American discourse of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is marked by an intense concern for the future of race relations. ... This determination occurred at a time when so many, as author David Lamb wrote in The Africans, considered that "the worlds ultimate crime is the racism of whites toward blacks. ...
-- Japan Times
THE PROBLEMS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
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THE division of the sciences reflects the diversity of human interests; it represents the economical adaptation of organized thought to the conditions of reality; and it likewise recognizes the intrinsically and objectively distinct realms and aspects, in which and under which phenomena occur. ...
Because the written word represented the most important means of mass communication during the antebellum period, the contribution of the Republican
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CHAPTER 5
Early Republicans and the Black Presence
But some people say that slavery is a curse to the white man. ... Seeking to guard against the racial corruption posed by an expanding mulatto population and wanting to protect the so-called racial purity, economic interests, and peace and security of the white laboring classes, virtually all Republican politicians, like Free Soil politicians previously, supported the policy of containment of blacks in the South. ... Aside from this general division, many other castes have been formed on the basis of occupations,
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Once, phrenology held a respected place in the academy; the practise…human skull was reputed to have predictive power. But phrenology soon passed into desuetude, replaced by more sophisticated (Phil Collins, 1998)
Nearly two hundred years after Gall founded his theories, we can look back and assess the real value and impact of Phrenology. Today, much of the criticism against Phrenology can be easily dismissed. ...
The moment has come to advocate a positive approach to scientific Phrenology which is to be considered as a valuable and powerful instrument for
• self-knowledge
• self-achievement
• education
• human relationships
• human resources
• law enforcement
• . ...
• Phrenology is a true science. ... In the coming century, Phrenology will assuredly attain general importance. ... , "The Wonderful Century"
• I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so.
Approximate Word count = 3023
Approximate Pages = 12.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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