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Sep 24, 2021 · The Iberians were descended from the original early human inhabitants of the peninsula, who arrived from southern France about 40,000 years ago. The most common haplogroup in Spanish and Portuguese males is R1b, which also happens to be the most common Y DNA haplogroup in Western Europe.
The article illustrates how diverse eugenic theories were in Iberia and Latin America and how they shed light on international debates about “race”, inheritance and the nation. The question of race, and especially of racial mixing, continues to fascinate scientists and publics alike.
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Dec 22, 2016 · It was the first set of discriminatory laws based on race. You probably know about the widespread mistreatment of Jews in Spain, even if your first thought when someone says “Spanish...
- Jeffrey Gorsky
The term scientific racism is generally used pejoratively when applied to more modern theories, such as those in The Bell Curve (1994). Critics argue that such works postulate racist conclusions, such as a genetic connection between race and intelligence, that are unsupported by available evidence.
Dec 30, 2020 · Azurara links the two curses of Ham: (1) Blackness and (2) Slavery in what is considered a pivotal moment for the theory of race in Europe, one shaped by the incipient Portuguese slave trade.
This article discusses the different scientific and political uses of “race” in Iberia and Latin America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It analyses how “race” became infused with perspectives that drew on broadly Lamarckian and Mendelian understandings of the malleability or fixity or racial characteristics.
Nov 16, 2016 · In the defining post-1870 race-historical polemic, right-wing Germans increasingly backed the Eurocentric new ‘Germanicist’ theory that the true, original Aryans were Nordic blonds from Scandinavia, who had conquered and civilised the world.
