Superior: The Return of Race Science

by Angela Saini

knowledge is not just an honest account of what we know, but has to be seen as something manipulated by those who happen to hold power when it is written.

The more we are superior to nature, the more we are superior as humans. It is a way of thinking that forces a ranking of people from closer to nature to more distant, from less developed to more, from worse to better. And history shows us that it’s only a small leap from believing in cultural superiority to believing in biological superiority, that a group’s achievements are due to their innate capacities.