Forbidden Regressions: Testing Racialism as a Scientific Hypothesis

It is important to distinguish between racism and racialism. The word 'racism' emerged in the late-1930s with the first batch of Boasian antiracists, in what may be thought of as the heroic age of Boasian antiracism, when they began to agitate against National Socialism. It did the same work in the popular mind that 'race prejudice' had done earlier. Fo…