RACIAL MYTHS Juan Comas

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This is a 49 page booklet translated from Spanish by UNESCO, the publisher; 1965 6th printing of the 1958 original.  Condition: acceptable; some pages loose; minor markings.  Chapter Titles: …General observations on racial prejudices and myths …The myth of blood and of the inferiority of crossbreeds …Colour prejudice: the Negro myth …The Jewish myth …The myth of Aryan or Nordic superiority.

About the author:  Juan Comas was born in a Spain of 1900 which was faced with social and political turmoil that would shape his work. At seventeen he received his first degree in Arts and Sciences, followed soon by several pedagogical degrees from prestigious universities in the country. Because of his academic achievements, The High Counsel of Scientific Investigation of Spain sent him to Geneva to continue his research in anthropology.  While at the Institute Rousseau, he published several times.  After time off to work for the Republicans during the civil war in Spain, Juan Comas received his Doctoral degree in Anthropological Sciences in 1942.  He could, however, not return to Spain where Franco, leading the Nationalists, had won the civil war and had placed Comas’ name on the exiled persons list.  Juan Comas was a pioneer of that which he criticized:  the now-prevalent school of pedagogy which holds that a professor must impart and advocate a political agenda imbedded within his science teaching. 

ISBN 0837188016; Dewey 572CJ; 49 pages, bibliography.