Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution
Cameron Brinitzer · 2024
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Cameron Brinitzer traces the roots of cultural evolution research to postwar fights against racism, in a paper from 2024. The field studies how culture changes over time, using tools from biology. It took shape in the 1970s and 1980s, then grew fast around 2000. Its founders aimed to fold culture into the modern view of evolution.
The author argues the field grew out of science-led antiracism and United States debates on race and intelligence. Geneticists and mind scientists recast culture in terms of counts, populations, and maps. That shift made the study of human difference look neutral and safe. The paper follows the main schools that came from that move. It places them in a longer line of twentieth-century antiracist science, with its gains and its blind spots.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Cameron Brinitzer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 86 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |