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When the Mines Closed: Heritage Building in Northeastern Pennsylvania
Author(s) -
Shackel Paul A.,
Westmont V. Camille
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
general anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1939-3466
pISSN - 1537-1727
DOI - 10.1111/gena.12007
Subject(s) - citation , library science , history , art history , computer science
Let me start off, then, with a sort of epigraph by Carleton Coon. Coon is not remembered fondly today, because in the early 1960s, as President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, he was secretly colluding with the segregationists, giving them preprints of his book which purported to demonstrate that the reason that Africans were economically and politically subjugated by Europeans is that they hadn’t been members of our species for very long, because whites had evolved into Homo sapiens 200,000 years before blacks did. And I’m happy to say that most of his contemporaries smacked him down, and in particular he got into a heated exchange with the great fruit fly geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, who, I might add, was a member of the American An-