Science Art: “Asian Types,” The New Students Reference Work (1914)


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A dicey bit of racial taxonomy from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.

I’m not sure how I feel about my children seeing this, but it’s a part of the history of anthropology. Somebody definitely seemed to have it in for the Mangune.

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