The Scientific Defense of Segregation, 1954-1967

John P. Jackson（个人奖）“种族隔离的科学辩护，1954-1967”这项博士后奖学金支持对一组科学家的研究，这些科学家在20世纪50年代末和60年代初认为种族隔离是合理的，因为科学已经证明非裔美国人在生物学上不如美国白人。这些科学家在试图推翻布朗诉教育委员会案的联邦法院审判中作为专家证人作证。种族隔离主义科学家认为，关于种族平等的科学共识是一个巨大的阴谋，目的是掩盖他们所谓的关于种族差异的客观真理。这项研究加入了科学文学史上关于“生物决定论”本质的几个正在进行的辩论。这项研究将在广泛的出版和档案资料中进行。该奖学金还包括一个培训部分，受助人将与社会心理学家、行为遗传学家和其他民族和种族科学研究学者一起工作。这一培训将增进受资助者对民族和种族科学研究中所涉及的方法和技术问题的理解。该奖学金在科罗拉多州博尔德市的科罗拉多大学美洲民族和种族研究中心举行。

SES 99-07034 - John P. Jackson (Individual Award) "The Scientific Defense of Segregation, 1954-1967"This Postdoctoral Fellowship supports research on a group of scientists who, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, argued that segregation was justified because science had proven that African Americans were biologically inferior to white Americans. These scientists testified as expert witnesses in Federal Court trials that attempted to overturn Brown v. Board of Education. Segregationist scientists argued that the scientific consensus on the equality of the races was a vast conspiracy to silence what they claimed was the objective truth about racial differences. The research joins several ongoing debates in the history of science literature on the nature of "biological determinism." The research will be carried out in an extensive array of published and archival sources.This fellowship also includes a training component wherein the grantee is working with social psychologists, behavioral geneticists and other scholars of the scientific study of ethnicity and race. This training will enhance the grantee's understanding of the methodological and technical issues involved in the scientific study of ethnicity and race.The fellowship is being held at the University of Colorado's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in the Americas in Boulder, Colorado.