Mankind Quarterly

''Mankind Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed journal that has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal", and "a pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality". It covers physical and cultural anthropology, including human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology, archaeology, and biology. It is published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research, which is presided over by Richard Lynn.

History

The journal was established in 1960 with funding from segregationists, who designed it to serve as a mouthpiece for their views. The costs of initially launching the journal were paid by the Pioneer Fund's Wickliffe Draper. The founders were Robert Gayre, Henry Garrett, Roger Pearson, Corrado Gini, Luigi Gedda (Honorary Advisory Board), Otmar von Verschuer and Reginald Ruggles Gates. Another early editor was Herbert Charles Sanborn, formerly the chair of the department of Philosophy and Psychology at Vanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942. It was originally published in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, an organization founded by Draper to promote eugenics and scientific racism.

Its foundation was a response to the declaration by UNESCO, which dismissed the validity of race as a biological concept, and to attempts to end racial segregation in the American South.
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In 1961, physical anthropologist Juan Comas published a series of scathing critiques of the journal arguing that the journal was reproducing discredited racial ideologies, such as Nordicism and anti-Semitism, under the guise of science. In 1963, after the journal's first issue, contributors U. R. Ehrenfels, T. N. Madan, and Juan Comas said that the journal's editorial practice was biased and misleading. In response, the journal published a series of rebuttals and attacks on Comas. Comas argued in ''Current Anthropology'' that the journal's publication of A. James Gregor's review of Comas' book ''Racial Myths'' was politically motivated. Comas claimed the journal misrepresented the field of physical anthropology by adhering to outdated racial ideologies, for example by claiming that Jews were considered a "biological race" by the racial biologists of the time. Other anthropologists complained that paragraphs that did not agree with the racial ideology of the editorial board were deleted from published articles without the authors' agreement.Paul A. Erickson, Liam Donat Murphy. 2013. Readings for A History of Anthropological Theory. University of Toronto Press, p. 534.

Few academic anthropologists would publish in the journal or serve on its board; when Gates died, Carleton S. Coon, an anthropologist sympathetic to the hereditarian and racialistic view of the journal, was asked to replace him, but he rejected the offer stating that "I fear that for a professional anthropologist to accept membership on your board would be the kiss of death". The journal continued to be published supported by grant money. Publisher Roger Pearson received over a million dollars in grants from the Pioneer Fund in the 1980s and 1990s.Mehler, Barry (7 July 1998)
Race Science and the Pioneer Fund
Originally published as "The Funding of the Science" in ''Searchlight'', No. 277.

During the "'' Bell Curve'' wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents of ''The Bell Curve'' publicised the fact that some of the works cited by ''Bell Curve'' authors Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray had first been published in ''Mankind Quarterly''. In ''The New York Review of Books'', Charles Lane referred to ''The Bell Curve''s "tainted sources", that seventeen researchers cited in the book's bibliography had contributed articles to, and ten of these seventeen had also been editors of, ''Mankind Quarterly'', "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race."

The journal has been published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research since January 2015, when publication duties were transferred from (Roger) Pearson's Council for Social and Economic Studies (which had published the journal since 1979).

Editors

The editor-in-chief is Richard Lynn.. Previous editors include Roger Pearson, Gerhard Meisenberg and Edward Dutton.

Controversy

''Mankind Quarterly'' has been described as a "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal", an "infamous racist journal", and "scientific racism's keepers of the flame". The journal has been criticised as being both overtly political and strongly right-leaning, supporting eugenics, racist or fascist.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
* ATLA Religion Database
* International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
* Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
* Modern Language Association Database
* Scopus

See also

* ''Intelligence'' (journal)
* ''Journal of Historical Review''
* '' Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies''
* '' Neue Anthropologie''
* '' The Occidental Quarterly''
* '' OpenPsych''
* ''Psych'' (journal)

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1960 establishments in Scotland
Anthropology journals
Biological anthropology
English-language journals
Eugenics in the United Kingdom
Quarterly journals
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Race and intelligence controversy
Scientific racism
White supremacy in the United Kingdom