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BOOKS: The tip of the white iceberg

AT ONE time it looked as if the horrors of Nazism would discredit scientific racism once and for all. Since the Second World War science has seemed to speak with one voice: the old view that humanity fell into a hierarchy of quite distinct types - with "whites" at the top and pretty much everyone else at the bottom - was not only unpalatable, it was also incorrect. Of course there are differences between us, but these merely represented variations upon a single type. As the 1950 Unesco Statement on Race put it, "mankind is one". This consensus, however, is now under threat, or so Marek Kohn argues in this well-documented and disturbing book.

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