To coincide with the three-part essay “The Razor Blade in the Apple” (Part 3 hits inboxes Thursday), here is an excerpt of our interview with two scholars who have much to say about the formation of the scientific consensus on race:
Nathaniel Comfort, historian of genetics and the relationship between modern genomics and 19th-century eugenics
Ayah Nuriddin, historian of the lived experience of black Americans over the past 100 years and how they’ve navigated questions of racial science, eugenics, and hereditarianism
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Preview: Nathaniel Comfort and Ayah Nuriddin