an essential palliative, given the racist ideologies of the social sciences. After considerable personal turmoil and two wasted years, Bell discovered economic theory, a field whose mathematical, deductive, character was appealing. Economics also did not exude an obvious racism. During his senior year, he was noticed by an agricultural economist from the Davis campus, who was teaching a course on Industrial Organization. This professor recommended Bell to Berkeley's Department of Agricultural Economics, which immediately offered Bell a "full ride" research assistantship—a welcomed escape from the inadequacy of summertime construction work. Bell performed well in this Department and produced a doctoral dissertation that was awarded two national awards in agricultural economics, in 1964. However, since his race was indicated in the Department's announcement of new graduates, Bell received no interviews from universities or from the Department of Agriculture. Since the Department's graduates were heavily recruited by departments of agricultural economics, Bell's situation was an embarrassment. However, after a year of failure, Bell was brought to the attention of Prof. James G. March, who was to become the Dean of Social Sciences for the new Irvine campus of the University. Bell received his promotion to Associate Professor in 1970, on the basis of the publication of his dissertation and another paper. However, he took leave of the Irvine campus to become a research associated with the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, where he worked for two years, publishing papers on issues related to Black workers. Then, he returned to Irvine on a half-time basis and combined it with a position at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, where most of his work dealt with the economics of aging. However, upon returning to full-time work at the University in 1975, he had a dispute with the Dean, which was demoralizing, leading to a five-year hiatus in research. It was only in the early 1980s that Bell returned to energetic research efforts, having become interested in economic anthropology. Most of the work that he produced between 1990 and 2008 can be found on his Personal Website. However, he has continued to publish after that date, with a capstone, major book which he hopes to be published in 2021: Corrupted Sciences: Ethnocentrism and racism in the study of prehistoric migrations. Between 2001 and 2005, Bell did ethnographic research in a Chinese village, under the stewardship of Zhao xudong, who had produced his dissertation with research