International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics

International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics

The International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE) was a prominent group in the promotion of eugenics and segregation, and the first publisher of "Mankind Quarterly".

History

IAAEE was founded in 1959 and has headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland. According to Russ Bellant, it was later also incorporated in the United States through the personal agency of Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, a member of the British Cliveden Set which supported appeasement of Adolf Hitler prior to World War II. Bellant, Russ (1991). "Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic fascist networks and their effect on U.S. cold war politics." South End Press, ISBN 978-0896084186] Staff report (April 03, 1939). [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771598,00.html Stop Hitler.] "Time"] Other historians, including Bruce Minton, give differing evidence. Minton, Bruce. Washington's Cliveden set. Reprinted from New masses, Feb. 24, 1942.]

A. James Gregor was a founding director of the IAAEE which was, according to Gregor, established to restore "an intellectual climate in the U.S., and throughout the Western World, which would permit a free and open discussion of racial ... problems."Tucker, William H. (2002). [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/tucker/ch3.html Our Source of Funds: The Campaign against Civil Rights.] in "The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund." University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02762-0] Gregor would later assert that his association with the organization was based on his concerns about congenital birth defects and the reproduction of the mentally retarded, as opposed to racial matters. Other members included Senator Jesse Helms and the oil billionaires Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt.

The IAAEE's main benefactor was Colonel Wickliffe Draper, a segregationist who opposed the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and sought to fund research that would provide scientific justification for segregation and revive the concept of racial hygiene which had been discredited as a result of the Nazis. In the 1970s Gregor was criticised for accepting grants from the Pioneer Fund which had been established by Draper to advance his views. IAAEE received $82,000 in grants from the Pioneer Fund between 1971 and 1996.

In the 1960s, Stanley Porteus served on the Executive Committee of the IAAEE.Stannard, David (December 12, 1997). [http://starbulletin.com/97/12/12/editorial/viewpointf.html Why Porteus Hall must be renamed.] "Honolulu Star Bulletin"] Henry E. Garrett, professor emeritus of psychology from Columbia University, was president of the IAAEE and one of the editors of "Mankind Quarterly". Other key figures included Robert E. Kuttner and Donald A. Swan.

Publications

The group published a series of monographs that were cited in many papers on race and intelligence.

In the controversial book "The Bell Curve", authors Charles Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein recommend two books on race and intelligence by three Pioneer Fund recipients: Audrey Shuey, Frank C. J. McGurk, and R. Travis Osborne. McGurk is the main authority they cite in support of the idea that IQ tests are not racially biased. In 1959 McGurk and Shuey became leading members of the IAAEE.Winston A. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0341/is_n1_v54/ai_21107572 Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby - International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology - Experts in the Service of Social Reform: SPSSI, Psychology, and Society, 1936-1996.] "Journal of Social Issues", Spring, 1998.]

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