Mankind Quarterly Explained

Mankind Quarterly
Cover:2018 cover MQ.png
Discipline:Anthropology
Abbreviation:Mank. Q.
Publisher:Ulster Institute for Social Research
Website:http://www.mankindquarterly.org
Frequency:Quarterly
History:1960–present
Issn:0025-2344
Oclc:820324
Lccn:63024971
Coden:MKQUA4
Mankind Quarterly Monographs
Discipline:Anthropology
Abbreviation:Mank. Q. Monogr.
Publisher:Ulster Institute for Social Research
Country:United Kingdom
Issn:0893-4649
Oclc:149980257
Lccn:sf89030002
Coden:MAQUE6

Mankind Quarterly is a journal that has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal",[1] [2] and "a pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality".[3] [4] [5] [6] It covers physical and cultural anthropology, including human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology, archaeology, and biology. It is published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research, which was presided over by Richard Lynn until his death in 2023.[7]

History

The journal was established in 1960 with funding from segregationists, who designed it to serve as a mouthpiece for their views. The costs of initially launching the journal were paid by the Pioneer Fund's Wickliffe Draper.[8] The founders were Robert Gayre, Henry Garrett, Roger Pearson, Corrado Gini, Luigi Gedda (Honorary Advisory Board),[9] Otmar von Verschuer and Reginald Ruggles Gates. Another early editor was Herbert Charles Sanborn,[10] formerly the chair of the department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942. It was originally published in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, an organization founded by Draper to promote eugenics and scientific racism.[8]

Its foundation was a response to the declaration by UNESCO, which dismissed the validity of race as a biological concept, and to attempts to end racial segregation in the American South.[11] [12] [9]

In 1961, physical anthropologist Juan Comas published a series of scathing critiques of the journal arguing that the journal was reproducing discredited racial ideologies, such as Nordicism and anti-Semitism, under the guise of science.[13] [14] In 1963, after the journal's first issue, contributors U. R. Ehrenfels, T. N. Madan, and Juan Comas said that the journal's editorial practice was biased and misleading.[15] In response, the journal published a series of rebuttals and attacks on Comas.[16] Comas argued in Current Anthropology that the journal's publication of A. James Gregor's review of Comas' book Racial Myths was politically motivated. Comas claimed the journal misrepresented the field of physical anthropology by adhering to outdated racial ideologies, for example by claiming that Jews were considered a "biological race" by the racial biologists of the time. Other anthropologists complained that paragraphs that did not agree with the racial ideology of the editorial board were deleted from published articles without the authors' agreement.[12] [17] [18]

Few academic anthropologists would publish in the journal or serve on its board; when Gates died, Carleton S. Coon, an anthropologist sympathetic to the hereditarian and racialistic view of the journal, was asked to replace him, but he rejected the offer stating that "I fear that for a professional anthropologist to accept membership on your board would be the kiss of death". The journal continued to be published supported by grant money.[17] Publisher Roger Pearson received over a million dollars in grants from the Pioneer Fund in the 1980s and 1990s.[19] [20]

During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents of The Bell Curve publicised the fact that some of the works cited by Bell Curve authors Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly.[21] In The New York Review of Books, Charles Lane referred to The Bell Curves "tainted sources", that seventeen researchers cited in the book's bibliography had contributed articles to, and ten of these seventeen had also been editors of, Mankind Quarterly, "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race."[22]

The journal has been published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research since January 2015, when publication duties were transferred from (Roger) Pearson's Council for Social and Economic Studies (which had published the journal since 1979).[23]

Emil Kirkegaard a Danish white supremacist and founder of the OpenPsych journal was the registrant of the Mankind Quarterly website between 2017 and February 2023, after which the WHOIS was anonymised.[24] [25] In February 2024, Kirkgaard filed his Mankind Publishing House LLC with the state of Wyoming.[25]

Editors

the editor-in-chief was Gerhard Meisenberg.[26] Previous editors include Roger Pearson,[27] Edward Dutton,[28] and Richard Lynn.[29]

Reception

Mankind Quarterly has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal",[30] an "infamous racist journal", and "scientific racism's keepers of the flame".[4] [5] The journal has been criticised as being both overtly political and strongly right-leaning,[31] supporting eugenics,[32] racist or fascist.[33] [34]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gresson . Aaron . Kincheloe . Joe L. . Steinberg . Shirley R. . Joe L. Kincheloe . Shirley R. Steinberg . Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined . St. Martin's Press . 978-0-312-17228-2 . 39 . 1st St. Martin's Griffin. Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined . 14 March 1997 .
  2. News: Saini . Angela . Why race science is on the rise again . 18 May 2019 . The Guardian .
  3. Jackson Jr. . John P. . Winston . Andrew S. . 7 October 2020 . The Mythical Taboo on Race and Intelligence . Review of General Psychology . 25 . 1 . 3–26. 10.1177/1089268020953622 . 225143131 . subscription .
  4. Ibrahim G. Aoudé, The ethnic studies story: politics and social movements in Hawaiʻi, University of Hawaii Press, 1999, p. 111.
  5. Kenneth Leech, Race, Church Publishing, Inc., 2005, p. 14.
  6. Encyclopedia: Winston . Andrew S. . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology . 29 May 2020 . Scientific Racism and North American Psychology . 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.516. 978-0-19-023655-7 . subscription .
  7. Web site: Home Page . https://web.archive.org/web/20220329100022/https://www.ulsterinstitute.org/index.html . 29 March 2022 . Ulster Institute for Social Research . 4 September 2022 . live.
  8. Book: Schaffer, G. . Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 . 2 September 2008 . Springer . 9780230582446 . 142–3 . en.
  9. 19848223 . 20 . 3 . Against UNESCO: Gedda, Gini and American scientific racism . Med Secoli . 907–935 . Cassata F. 2008 .
  10. Web site: History and Philosophy . Mankind Quarterly . https://web.archive.org/web/20150409165737/http://mankindquarterly.org/about/ . 22 September 2015. 9 April 2015 . Internet Archive.
  11. Schaffer. Gavin. 2007. "'Scientific' Racism Again?": Reginald Gates, the "Mankind Quarterly" and the Question of "Race" in Science after the Second World War. 27557994. Journal of American Studies. 41. 2. 253–278. 10.1017/S0021875807003477. 145322934. The Mankind Quarterly was designed as an objective foil to the folly of UNESCO and "post-racial" science..
  12. Book: Jackson, John P. . Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case against Brown v. Board of Education . limited . . 2005 . 978-0-8147-4271-6. While the IAAEE scientists were deep into the fight to preserve racial segregation in the American South, they were also involved in a battle on a different front. They had launched their own journal, Mankind Quarterly, which purported to be dedicated to an open discussion of the scientific study of racial issues..
  13. Comas Juan . 1961 . "Scientific" Racism Again? . 10.1086/200208 . . 2 . 4 . 303–340. 144747308 .
  14. Comas Juan . 1962 . More on "Scientific" Racism . 10.1086/200293 . Current Anthropology . 3 . 3 . 284–302. 144911990 .
  15. Ehrenfels, U. R. . Baron Omar Rolf von Ehrenfels . Madan, T. N. . Triloki Nath Madan . Comas, J. . Juan Comas . 1962 . Mankind Quarterly Under Heavy Criticism: 3 Comments on Editorial Practices . 2739528 . Current Anthropology . 3 . 2 . 154–158 . 10.1086/200265. 143606207 .
  16. Gates, R. R. . Gregor, A. J. . amp . 1963 . Mankind Quarterly: Gates and Gregor Reply to Critics . 2739826 . Current Anthropology . 4 . 1 . 119–121 . 10.1086/200345. 144086425 .
  17. Paul A. Erickson, Liam Donat Murphy. 2013. Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory. University of Toronto Press, p. 534.
  18. Harrison G. Ainsworth . 1961 . The Mankind Quarterly . Man . 61 . 163–164. 10.2307/2796948 . 2796948 .
  19. Mehler, Barry (7 July 1998). Race Science and the Pioneer Fund Originally published as "The Funding of the Science" in Searchlight, No. 277.
  20. Genoves . Santiago . 8 December 1961 . Racism and "The Mankind Quarterly" . . en . 134 . 3493 . 1928–1932 . 10.1126/science.134.3493.1928 . 1095-9203 . 17831127. 1961Sci...134.1928G .
  21. Book: Tucker, William H. . The funding of scientific racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund . William H. Tucker (psychologist) . . 2002 . 978-0-252-07463-9.
  22. 'The Bell Curve' and Its Sources . Harry F. . Weyher . Charles . Lane . 2 February 1995 . The New York Review of Books.
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  24. Web site: Wilson. Jason. 2024. Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard's Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists. The Guardian. en-GB. May 29, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240529110826/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard. live.
  25. Web site: Wolfson. Leo. 2024. White Supremacist Who Wants Legal Child Porn Doing Business Through Wyoming LLC. Cowboy State Daily. en-GB. May 24, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240524224135/https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/24/white-supremacist-who-wants-legal-child-porn-doing-business-through-wyoming-llc/. live.
  26. Web site: 2024-01-23. Mankind Quarterly - About. 1 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230401083530/https://mankindquarterly.org/about . 1 April 2023 .
  27. Schaffer . Gavin . 2007-07-05 . "'Scientific' Racism Again?":1 Reginald Gates, the Mankind Quarterly and the Question of "Race" in Science after the Second World War . Journal of American Studies . en . 41 . 2 . 253–278 . 10.1017/S0021875807003477 . 145322934 . 1469-5154. subscription .
  28. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328100927/http://www.mankindquarterly.org/about Internet Archive capture
  29. News: Telegraph. Obituaries. 2024-01-23. Richard Lynn, evolutionary psychologist who declared his belief in the benefits of eugenics – obituary. The Telegraph. 31 August 2023. 0307-1235. www.telegraph.co.uk.
  30. Book: Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined. Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined. 14 March 1997. St. Martin's Press. 978-0-312-17228-2. Gresson. Aaron. 1st St. Martin's Griffin. 39. Kincheloe. Joe L.. Joe L. Kincheloe. Steinberg. Shirley R.. Shirley R. Steinberg.
  31. e.g., Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
  32. Mehler . Barry . Barry Mehler . Foundation for fascism: The new eugenics movement in the United States . . December 1989 . 23 . 4 . 17–25 . 10.1080/0031322X.1989.9970026.
  33. Book: Schaffer, Gavin . Racial science and British society, 1930–62 . . Basingstoke . 2008.
  34. Gelb . Steven A. . Heart of Darkness: The Discreet Charm of the Hereditarian Psychologist . The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies . 19 . 1 . 1997 . 129–139 . 10.1080/1071441970190110.
  35. Web site: Title and Product Update Lists . . . 4 January 2019.
  36. Web site: Mankind Quarterly . MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals . . 4 January 2019.
  37. Web site: Source details: Mankind Quarterly . . Scopus preview . 4 January 2019.

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