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(Re)Generations: Challenging Scientific Racism in Hawaiʻi

  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Bishop Museum

Ongoing until October 24, 2021

(Re)Generations: Challenging Scientific Racism in Hawaiʻi

Bishop Museum

More info: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/regenerations/


(Re)Generations: Challenging Scientific Racism in Hawaiʻi explores a collection of photographs and plaster busts created by anthropologist Louis R. Sullivan as a tool to measure and classify the physical traits of a supposedly “pure” Native Hawaiian race. The collection was presented at the Second International Eugenics Conference (1921) with Bishop Museum’s endorsement and support. Measuring, classifying, and categorizing people through “race science” has been used to justify slavery, displacement, colonial occupation, eugenics, and genocide. We know that there is no biological truth to race, and research like Sullivan’s is now long discredited. Yet the myths of race and racial superiority, and the structural inequalities they support, have lasting and traumatic effects.




 

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