There is a sense of it being unspoken because of that. But there was also a complete double standard between the way men and women were allowed to talk about the war. Norman Lewis was a prolific 20th century travel writer who had many eminent fans. Do you want to tell us more about it? This was the first area of Europe to be liberated so it was the first sight the Allies had of what they were dealing with, which was pretty chaotic.
Naples in was a city in meltdown. First and foremost, there was no food at all. Children would dig up grass from the roadside to take home to eat.
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People would do anything to get hold of some food — literally anything. Norman Lewis repeatedly had men approach him trying to press the favours of their wives and their daughters upon him in return for a hot meal. The mafia is still there. The mafia was, to a degree, reinstated by the Allies when they arrived. They wanted to avoid complete chaos so they installed people who looked like they had authority.
In some cases that meant keeping the fascists on board, in other cases it meant reinstalling the mafia people who the fascists had got rid of years earlier. When the Allies arrived they were like gods. They had unlimited access to food, money and cigarettes and all the things that the local people were craving.
The corruption that brought with it was every bit as bad as the home-grown corruption. Some of the stories of Allied soldiers lining up with tins of food to hand over to women they are going to sleep with are quite chilling. The Forest Brothers is the name given to the partisans in the Baltic states. Can you can give us some background on them? If you were in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and in bits of Poland, the war began for you not when the Germans invaded but when the Soviet Union invaded — in areas of Poland in and the Baltic states in So the fact that Germans took over most of Europe subsequently is kind of neither here nor there because the war ends with the Soviets still in control.
So when the war came to an end for most of Europe in these partisans carried on fighting in units in the forests all the way into the s. He was a Lithuanian student in when the Soviets re-entered his country. He and his family were staunch nationalists and they joined a group of partisans in order to try to fight against the Soviets.
Initially it was all organised by the Lithuanian army, so they had huge units of men hiding in the woods conducting ambushes on Soviet troops. But they were no match for the Red Army and they started suffering some really terrible defeats. They then reorganised themselves into little partisan cells hiding out in little bunkers dotted around the woodlands.
For years and years they fought this clandestine battle against the might of the Red Army. It reminds me of stories of the French resistance during the war. One of the really poignant things about the story is that he left Lithuania at the end of in order to inform the West about what was happening in his country. He travelled through all the border regions, travelling by night and hiding in the woods by day, and finally made his way through to the West.
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Matthew Frye Jacobson and George Fredrickson, for example, regularly draw out links between cultural practices and ideas about human variation.
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Holt also examines the fallacies about race and biology inherent in twentieth-century racism. I think it is fair to say, however, that most recent historical attention has been directed toward the cultural, political, and economic aspects of race, even if biological ideas occasionally play a supporting role. Some notable examples of this literature include Barbara J. Morgan Kousser and James M. Essays in Honor of C.
A Short History Princeton, N. In the history of science, in addition to the works cited above in note 2, see Joseph L. Graves, The Emperor's New Clothes: Reynolds and Leonard Lieberman, eds. More recently, Reardon has argued that the UNESCO statement did not represent a clean break from typology, as debates about the appropriateness of racial classification continued. Reardon, Race to the Finish , 34— For example, in a test of a drug's effectiveness, the drug might be administered to one group, and a placebo administered to another control group.
The null hypothesis would be that there is no difference between the effect of the drug and the placebo, and the alternative hypothesis would be that the drug has a significant effect not observed in the control group. What is important here is that the null hypothesis is the claim assumed to be true at the outset of an inquiry. This is discussed in more detail below. Ambiguous Identities London, , Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: Toward a Democratic Future Bloomington, Ind.
That anthropologist was Earnest A. Hooton, as quoted on Boas as quoted in ibid. Prior claims about racial intelligence were based on the World War I army tests administered to 1. Psychologists initially claimed that the tests demonstrated racial differences in mental ability, but the results soon bolstered a non-hereditarian view of intelligence among scholars, as differences correlating with economic backgrounds, language, and region provided strong evidence for the role of environment.
For contemporary criticism, see F. See also Daniel J. On the Red Cross, see S.
The Fallacy of Race ; repr. Report of a Survey London, n. On the scientific debate about mixed-race children, see Daniel J. Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics: Julian Huxley and A. Gerstle, American Crucible , ; John P. Weidman, Race, Racism, and Science: Clyde Kluckhohn to Prof. Carl Joslyn, May 7, [cc'd to Montagu], Corresp. See also Andrew P. Although scholars in several disciplines addressed race, it was not central to any disciplinary canon. Barkan, The Retreat of Scientific Racism , 4—5. The Fallacy of Race , 3rd ed. New York, , omelet quotations 37— For example, Montagu's four major groups and the thirty postulated in Carleton S.
Garn, and Joseph B. McGregor to Montagu, March 1, , Corresp. Barkan, The Retreat of Scientific Racism , Costa Pinto, Brazil; E. It is notable, however, given criticism of the subsequent committee, that the first was more diverse. Penny Von Eschen, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, — Ithaca, N.
Although intergroup materials more frequently stressed conflict reduction, one film, Brotherhood of Man , produced for the United Auto Workers, adapted material from the wartime pamphlet The Races of Mankind ; Svonkin, Jews against Prejudice , 41— Dudziak, Cold War, Civil Rights: Agnostics did, however, represent a sea change that had taken place in the interwar years as scholars became increasingly suspicious of the old typological categories.
The emergence of doubt itself was a significant development within the sciences. Letter to Editor, the Times , July 24, , copy, and W. See also comments in Man 50 October On Coon, see John P. The Reception of Carleton S. Maheu, January 22, , ibid. Haraway also notes the absence of Cobb. Cobb, a former vice-president of the AAPA, had published extensively on race and physical anthropology, including a article in the aftermath of Jesse Owens's Olympic victory, challenging the notion that race determined athletic ability, and thus undermining a significant strand of biological determinism.
His work as a whole, however, was not easily categorized in terms of how it might have supported a campaign against racial stereotypes. In a publication, he suggested that slavery might have introduced a selective pressure on traits such as musical ability. On Cobb, see Lesley M. Rankin-Hill and Michael L.
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Occasional Essays and Reflections Madison, Wis. Lysenko—had became shorthand for the manipulation of science for political ends. Most Western scientists had accepted the Mendelian concept of transmission of traits by genes in the s, and in doing so, abandoned the older Lamarckian idea that traits acquired in a lifetime were transmitted to the next generation. But Lysenko embraced the latter as more compatible with Stalin's dictum that science should serve materialist analysis.
After , unrepentant dissenters from Lysenko were fired from their positions, were exiled to Siberia, disappeared, or died under mysterious circumstances; books on genetics were banned, textbooks were sanitized of its influence, classes were canceled, and labs were closed. Lysenko and World Science New York, On Dunn, see L. Dunn to George A. Jervis, March 9, , and Dunn to Milton C. Joseph Birdsell, Comments re Statement, n. Nachtsheim, March 8, , and A. As quoted in German: For a geneticist's view of race, see Dobzhansky's comments on the statement, n.
Dobzhansky, however, suggested that environment had a very strong impact on how genetic inheritance was expressed. The new evolutionary synthesis was the integration of modern genetics including mathematical modeling and population genetics, which were Fisher's main contribution with Darwinian thought. Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance Cambridge, Mass.
Observations of an Evolutionist Cambridge, Mass. In , Coon's Origin of Races would make just such an argument, claiming that Homo erectus had consisted of five races that evolved into Homo sapiens at different times, thousands of years apart, and suggesting that this explained racial differences in achievement. The book and Coon's refusal to denounce racist uses of it were widely criticized by his colleagues, and he became increasingly marginalized in academia.
In the s, however, Coon was an influential physical anthropologist. A professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of ethnology at the University Museum from to , he was awarded the Wenner-Gren Viking Fund Medal in Physical Anthropology in , was named to the National Academy of Sciences in , and served as president of the AAPA in — Theodor Adorno et al. Steven Rendall Berkeley, Calif. Ashley Montagu to Robert Angell, April 5, , ibid.
On South Africa, see C. The first version under this title was never released in the United States. Opposition from members of the museum's board of governors nearly resulted in the whole exhibit's being canceled. Hoffman's sculptures, commissioned in and functioning as the representation of race at the Field Museum for the following thirty years, were widely reproduced as small-scale replicas circulated during World War II, and appeared in photographs for the C. McGurk's article reviewed six studies of black and white intelligence test performance since and compared the results to the World War I army IQ tests.
He argued that social and economic opportunities had greatly improved for black Americans since World War I, but the gap in test scores remained relatively constant between the s and s. Therefore, he concluded, the gap must be caused by innate differences rather than environment. News and World Report , September 21, , 92— Quotation from Newby, Challenge to the Court , 73— English Choose a language for shopping.
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