The skull measurer's mistake : and other portraits of men and women who spoke out against racism / Sven Lindqvist ; translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate.
| Author/creator | Lindqvist, Sven |
| Other author | Tate, Joan. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©1997. |
| Description | 182 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Antirasister. English |
| Contents | The discovery of prejudices : Benjamin Franklin -- Whether a slave, by coming into England, becomes free? : Granville Sharp -- Why not? : Georg Lichtenberg -- The struggle against the slave trade begins : James Ramsay -- For Jews and Blacks : Henri Grégoire -- Doctor in Africa : Thomas Winterbottom -- The skull measurer's mistake : Friedrich Tiedemann -- Poet astray : William Howitt -- The three races of America : Alexis de Tocqueville -- The myth of the Anglo-Saxon master race : Charles Anderson -- Let the Chinese come! : Raphael Pumpelly -- Exterminating people is wrong : Langfield Ward --Anti-Semitism, the monster of national emotion : Theodor Mommsen -- A century of dishonor : Helen Hunt -- The silent South : George Cable -- White natives of Europe : William Babington -- How perilous is the yellow peril? : Jacques Novicow -- The dying negro : Joseph Conrad -- Equality or massacre : Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu -- The Miss Marple of anthropology : Mary Kingsley -- For a democratic South Africa : Olive Schreiner -- Denied heritage : Theophilus Scholes. |
| General note | First published in English by Albert Bonniers Forlag AB, Stockholm in 1995. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182). |
| LCCN | 96040902 |
| ISBN | 1565843630 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HT1507 .L56 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |