thesociologicalcinema: “Blacks were believed to sleep more,...

thesociologicalcinema:

“Blacks were believed to sleep more, feel pain less, endure heat better and cold worse, and be more prone to fevers, tetanus, syphilis, yaws, and tuberculosis but resistant to yellow fever and malaria. Their skins were thought thicker, their brains smaller; they were characterized as sexually precocious and intellectually retarded. Yet in a familiar but illogical leitmotiv, treatments for whites were devised, adopted, or rejected based upon the black response to therapeutics.”

~ Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid

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