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The End of Racism?
Almost every piece of work or literature that I’ve read on racism is built on one assumption: That it can’t end
Three scholars are often celebrated during Black History Month.
W.E.B. Dubois (1868–1963) was a founding member of the NAACP. Carter G. Woodson (1875–1962) pioneered Black History Month, and E. Franklin Frazier (1894–1962) was the first black president of the American Sociological Association.
Missing from that list is Howard University’s distinguished professor of antiquity, Frank Snowden Jr. (1911–2007). His scholarship examined the concept of race in the ancient world.
I’ll get back to him.
In 1995 an academic from the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank) published The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society. This book was released a year after two scholars from the American Enterprise Institute published the most radioactive book of the 20th century, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure. (This book’s radioactivity is only rivaled by a 1907 book called The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization.)
Critics insisted The Bell Curve was a white supremacist attempt to demonstrate that black people were less intelligent than white people. Not only did the…