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| Discipline | Anthropology |
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| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1960–present |
| Publisher | Ulster Institute for Social Research |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Mank. Q. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | MKQUA4 |
| ISSN | 0025-2344 |
| LCCN | 63024971 |
| OCLC no. | 820324 |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
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| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Ulster Institute for Social Research (United Kingdom) |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt ) | |
| ISO 4 | Mank. Q. Monogr. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | MAQUE6 |
| ISSN | 0893-4649 |
| LCCN | sf89030002 |
| OCLC no. | 149980257 |
Mankind Quarterly is apseudoscientific journal that coversphysical andcultural anthropology, includinghuman evolution,intelligence,ethnography,linguistics,mythology,archaeology, andbiology. It has been described as a "cornerstone of thescientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal",[1][2][3][4] and "apseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality".[5][6][7][8][9] As of 2024,Mankind Quarterly was published by the white nationalistHuman Diversity Foundation.[10]
The journal was established in 1960 with funding fromsegregationists, who designed it to serve as a mouthpiece for their views. The costs of initially launching the journal were paid by thePioneer Fund'sWickliffe Draper.[11][12] The founders wereRobert Gayre,Henry Garrett,Roger Pearson,Corrado Gini,Luigi Gedda (Honorary Advisory Board),[13]Otmar von Verschuer andReginald Ruggles Gates. Another early editor wasHerbert Charles Sanborn,[14] formerly the chair of the department of Philosophy and Psychology atVanderbilt University from 1921 to 1942. It was originally published inEdinburgh,Scotland, by theInternational Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, an organization founded by Draper to promote eugenics and scientific racism.[11]
Its foundation was a response to the declaration byUNESCO, which dismissed the validity of race as a biological concept, and to attempts to endracial segregation in theAmerican South.[12][15][13]
In 1961, physical anthropologistJuan Comas published a series of scathing critiques of the journal arguing that the journal was reproducing discredited racial ideologies, such asNordicism andanti-Semitism, under the guise of science.[16][17] In 1963, after the journal's first issue, contributorsU. R. Ehrenfels,T. N. Madan, and Juan Comas said that the journal's editorial practice was biased and misleading.[18] In response, the journal published a series of rebuttals and attacks on Comas.[19] Comas argued inCurrent Anthropology that the journal's publication ofA. James Gregor's review of Comas' bookRacial Myths was politically motivated. Comas claimed the journal misrepresented the field of physical anthropology by adhering to outdated racial ideologies, for example by claiming thatJews were considered a "biological race" by the racial biologists of the time. Other anthropologists complained that paragraphs that did not agree with the racial ideology of the editorial board were deleted from published articles without the authors' agreement.[18][15]: 163–164 [20][21]
Few academic anthropologists would publish in the journal or serve on its board; when Gates died,Carleton S. Coon, an anthropologist sympathetic to the hereditarian and racialistic view of the journal, was asked to replace him, but he rejected the offer stating that "I fear that for a professional anthropologist to accept membership on your board would be the kiss of death".[citation needed] The journal continued to be published supported by grant money.[20] Publisher Roger Pearson received over a million dollars in grants from thePioneer Fund in the 1980s and 1990s.[8][22][23]
During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents ofThe Bell Curve publicised the fact that some of the works cited byBell Curve authorsRichard Herrnstein andCharles Murray had first been published inMankind Quarterly.[8] InThe New York Review of Books, Charles Lane referred toThe Bell Curve's "tainted sources", that seventeen researchers cited in the book's bibliography had contributed articles to, and ten of these seventeen had also been editors of,Mankind Quarterly, "a notorious journal of 'racial history' founded, and funded, by men who believe in the genetic superiority of the white race."[24]
The journal has been published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research since January 2015, when publication duties were transferred from(Roger) Pearson's Council for Social and Economic Studies (which had published the journal since 1979).[25]
As of 2023[update] the editor-in-chief wasGerhard Meisenberg.[26] Previous editors includeRoger Pearson,[27] Edward Dutton,[28] andRichard Lynn.[29]
TheMankind Quarterly was published by the Ulster Institute for Social Research, which was presided over byRichard Lynn until his death in 2023.[30][29]
As of 2024,Mankind Quarterly is published by the white nationalistHuman Diversity Foundation founded by Danish far-right activistEmil Kirkegaard.[10] The Foundation also publishes theAporia Magazine.[10]
Emil Kirkegaard, a white supremacist and founder of theOpenPsych journal, was the registrant of theMankind Quarterly website between 2017 and February 2023, after which theWHOIS was anonymised.[31][32] In February 2024, Kirkegaard filed his Mankind Publishing House LLC with the state ofWyoming under the name of William Engman (his legal name since 2021).[32]
Mankind Quarterly has been described as a "cornerstone of thescientific racism establishment", a "white supremacist journal",[33] an "infamous racist journal", and "scientific racism's keepers of the flame".[8][6][7] The journal has been criticised as being both overtly political and strongly right-leaning,[34] supportingeugenics,[35] racist or fascist.[36][37]
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HDF has incorporated the Pioneer Fund's old operations. In private conversations with our infiltrator, HDF leaders said "we have" Mankind Quarterly. On an internal slide deck prepared by the company, Mankind Quarterly was similarly listed as part of HDF's operations... The team aims to slip papers into academic journals with higher impact and circulation than their own publications. If unable to do so, HDF will publish the group's papers in their print journal Mankind Quarterly or the OpenPsych website, which has been described as "a pseudoscience factory-farm".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The Mankind Quarterly was designed as an objective foil to the folly of UNESCO and "post-racial" science.
While the IAAEE scientists were deep into the fight to preserve racial segregation in the American South, they were also involved in a battle on a different front. They had launched their own journal,Mankind Quarterly, which purported to be dedicated to an open discussion of the scientific study of racial issues.: 148