Title: The Science of Race | Facing History and Ourselves
Headings: The Science of Race
The Science of Race
Holocaust and Human Behavior
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Content: Fashion is not confined to dress; but extends to philosophy as well—and it is fashionable now, in our land, to exaggerate the differences between the Negro and the European. Why was it “fashionable” for many white Americans to deny the humanity of Africans? Douglass explained: “ The whole argument in defense of slavery becomes utterly worthless the moment the African is proved to be equally a man with the Anglo-Saxon. The temptation, therefore, to read the Negro out of the human family is exceeding strong.” 3
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1 Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 47. 2 Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: