Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part One)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about Henry Herbert Goddard, who believed that race was the key to discovering what people's potential was in the realm of intelligence. Goddard's work was used by nativists in Co...
Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part Two)
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson explains that, while Henry Herbert Goddard and others like him are often viewed currently as, "...crackpots...out on the fringe somewhere with bizarre ideas that aren't really related t...
Franz Boas Takes On The Eugenicists
Professor of American studies and history Matthew Frye Jacobson talks about Jewish scholar and Columbia anthropology professor Franz Boas. Professor Jacobson explains that Boas was, "...one of the first scholars who really started to question what w...