By G. Schaffer
From 1930-62 the assumption of race was once studied throughout various educational disciplines. This ebook explores professional thinkings on race within the interval and explains the connection among clinical racial learn, social coverage and attitudes concerning immigration, eventually providing new perception into the evolving figuring out of the belief of race.
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Whilst Jones did not criticise explicitly Fletcher’s report, his comments on the ‘previous investigation’ do show implicit discord as well as some significant differences in view. 53 Furthermore, Jones argued the case for his study by asserting a quiet lack of confidence in Fletcher’s findings. 54 A subtle difference in outlook concerning the idea of black people in Britain is also detectable between the two investigators. ’55 Despite these differences, Caradog Jones’s report did not firmly challenge Fletcher’s image of Liverpool’s black population.
He also felt that the book’s argument was a breach of scientific integrity, a piece of political propaganda and not a work of science. C. Haddon who, Gates was convinced, had been manipulated into serving as co-author. One letter from Gates in March 1937 summed up all his feelings about the We Europeans project: …please don’t pretend that Haddon agrees with you about the book. You must know that he tried to withdraw from it when he found what you were making of it, and that he is heartily disgusted with the whole thing.
The importance of these four reports to this study is not that they represent all the racial opinions of biologists or social scientists in the 1930s but that they highlight something of the parameters of the race debates that were taking place across British scientific communities. 59 Biologists would spend much of the next ten years arguing about the social effects of racial mixing and the economic and political implications of multiracial societies. Whilst Caradog Jones and Davies and Hughes may not have shared Moul and Rethinking Interwar Racial Reform: the 1930s 25 Pearson’s and Fletcher’s views about the groups they were investigating, it is clear nonetheless that the idea that Jewish and black immigrants and minorities represented different and alien racial communities was to varying extents shared by all of these researchers.