Andy Seal [AS]: After reading your book, it’s almost impossible for me to remember that, for many political scientists and for many social scientists in general, the history of their discipline can be told without a substantial engagement with the racist ideas it promulgated. What were some of those racist ideas, and is there one key figure or even one key primary source that encapsulates some of the book’s larger arguments? Jessica Blatt [JB]: To be fair, there is great work out there on race and the history of the social sciences, especially but not only of anthropology and sociology. Read more