The Authority of Nature
Week 1: Prelude: The Races of Man, 1750–1900
- L. Agassiz,"The Diversity of origin of the human species'' from The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany
- P. Broca, On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo, pp. 68–74
- E. Kant, On the different races of man, pp. 16–24
- R. Knox, Races of men, pp. 588–600
- J. K. Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy: Sculls pp. 203–228
and National physiognomy, pp. 83–125 - W. Lawrence, Lectures on Comparative physiology, zoology and the natural history of man: On the causes of the varieties of the human species, pp. 51–59
- A. Retzius, Ethnology, pp. 501–514 and from On Ethnology
- J. J. Virey, Natural history of the negro species, pp. 163–180
Week 2: Darwinism and Mankind
- C. Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. II, Chapters I–XI, in particular Chapter VIII, pp. 123–41
- C. Darwin: A selection of his views on man from several books and his correspondence
- C. Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle: Chapter XI: Fuegians etc
- C. Darwin, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex: Chapter VII: On the races of man
- J. Bonwick, The Last of the Tasmanians, Chs. 12 and 13
- T. H. Huxley, "On the method and results of ethnology"
- E. Haeckel, The History of Creation, Vol. 2, pp. 334–69
Week 3: Darwinism and Societies: Social Darwinism
- W. R. Greg, "England as it is"
- H. Spencer, "Progress: Its laws and causes"
- W. R. Greg, "On the failure of natural selection"
- B. Kidd, Social Evolution, Chs. 2 and 9
- G. Allen, "Spencer and Darwin"
- R. Lankester, "The present evolution of man"
Week 4: The Foundation of Eugenics
- F. Galton, "Hereditary talent and character"
- F. Galton, "Eugenics"
- E. H. Elderton, The Relative Strength of Nature and Nurture, pp. 3-10 and 31-3
- K. Pearson, The Right of the Unborn Child
- K. Pearson, The Groundwork of Eugenics
- E. Schuster, The Promise of Youth and the Performance of Manhood
Week 5: Eugenics in Europe and the US
- L. Neville-Rolfe, "Autobiographical notes"
- H. H. Goddard, The Kallikak family
- C. W. Saleeby, The Methods of Race-Regeneration
- J. R. Commons, Races and Immigrants in America
- C. B. Davenport, "The effects of race intermingling"
Week 6: Theories of degeneration and the "criminal type"
- C. Lombroso, Crime. Its Causes and Remedies (including "Introduction" by Maurice Parmerlee, and Criminal Man)
- E. R. Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism
- Hans Kurella, Cesare Lombroso. A Modern Man of Science, Chs. 1 and 2
Week 7: The Dictatorship of Nature: The "natural" foundations of Fascism and Nazism
- L. F. Baum, "Editorials on the Sioux nation"
- G. V. de Lapouge, "The fundamental laws of anthropo-sociology"
- H. S. Chamberlain, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, "The Chaos"
- H. S. Chamberlain, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, "Sacredness of pure race"
- A. de Gobineau, "The inequality of human races"
- Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd. A Study of the Popular Mind, Chs. 1 and 4
Week 8: The Inequality of Nature: A long (and increasingly challenged) heritage
- A. Jensen, "How much can we boost IQ and school achievement?"
- R. J. Herrnstein and C. Murray, The Bell Curve. Intelligence and Class Sturcutre in American Life, Ch. 13
- R. Lynn and T. Vanhanen, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, pp. 1–25, 183–95
- R. Lynn, "Race differences in intelligence: A global perspective"
- T. Volken, "The impact of national IQ on income and growth. A critique of Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen's recent book"
- A. and B. D. Smedley, "Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real. Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race"