Karl Pearson was a key developer and promoter of eugenics in Britain, 1900-1930. This included patronage of research and posts at University College London (UCL). In this film, ProfJoeCain examines the connections between Pearson, his view of eugenics, and his views about race. He concludes Pearson was a racist, nativist, supremacist for an imaginary Anglo-Saxon “stock”. This case certainly is about race and racism. It also is about more. ProfJoeCain raises questions about voice and attribution, as well as questions about academic entrepreneurship. This talk was limited to 30 minutes with originally presented to an academic audience, hence some assumptions made in the presentation.
