Racisme

54 p. 12 mo. 160mm. Original full green cloth binding lettered in red. Hardbound. Very good. Dr. Katherine Blackford and her Blackford Employment Plan promulgated a "scientific" methodology (drawing on 19th-century practices of physiognomy, phrenologists, and eugenicists) for assessing individual character traits from physical characteristics, including hair color. Here she tries to establish that "always and everywhere, the normal blond has positive, dynamic, driving, aggressive, domineering, impatient, active, quick, hopeful, speculative, changeable, and variety-loving characteristics; while the normal brunette has negative, static, conservative, imitative, submissive, cautious, painstaking, patient, plodding, slow, deliberate, serious, thoughtful, specializing characteristics." VERIA BX 1