Many of this season’s stories talk about racism in terms of how it’s systemic—baked into science and medicine in subtle ways. This episode examines a much more overt kind of scientific racism: by telling the story of a racist, wealthy, underground confederacy that has funded nearly every race scientist out there.
About Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race“Keepers of the Flame” is Episode 3 of Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, a podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. Published through Distillations, the Science History Institute’s highly acclaimed digital content platform, the project examines the scientific origins of support for racist theories, practices, and policies. Innate is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
CreditsHosts: Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago
Senior Producer: Mariel Carr
Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez
Associate Producer: Padmini Ragunath
Audio Engineer: Jonathan Pfeffer
“Innate Theme” composed by Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
‘The American Breed’: Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund, by Paul Lombardo
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund, by William Tucker
The New Eugenics: Academic Racism in the U.S. Today, by Barry Mehler
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Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini
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The Mothers of Gynecology
Correcting Race
"That Rotten Spot"
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Bad Blood, Bad Science
The African Burial Ground
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Calamity in Philadelphia
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Disappearing Spoon: The Murderous Origins of the American Medical Association
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