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The other copy I am keeping here for the present. By the way, what has happened about Chapter 8 (Europe overseas – according to the list of chapters)? There doesn’t seem to be one. Is it a chapter that is being done by somebody else, and what am I to do with it when it appears, or have you got it, or what? 103 In other correspondence between Coomb and Huxley in January 1935 the important role being played by Singer and Seligman in the development of the text is highlighted further. ’104 In another letter sent the following week, Coomb highlighted the role of eugenicist and anthropologist Alexander Carr Saunders, who was fully credited as cowriter in later editions, as the author of the missing chapter on ‘Europe overseas’.

85 Many of the attending academics clearly wished to use the conference (as Seligman intended) to voice their opposition to Nazi racial thinking by promoting more critical and subtle scientific engagement with the concept of race. This progressive scientific perspective challenged the idea that race was a usable or stable concept and prioritised environmental explanations for cultural diversity between European populations. In doing so it was somewhat reminiscent of the kind of challenge to traditional racial analysis posed by Davies and Hughes (and later Rumyaneck) to Moul and Pearson’s research a few years earlier.

Fletcher’s investigation emphasised the sexual differences of black men whom she presented as promiscuous and deviant. She argued that: In Liverpool there is evidence to show that the negro tends to be promiscuous in his relations with white women. 46 This analysis led to the corresponding assertion that no ‘normal’ white woman would partner a black man. Once a woman did so, she effectively abandoned ordinary sexual practice and became a part of the debauched black sexual world. ‘Once a woman has lived with a coloured man, the house appears to become a sort of club for any coloured men in port.

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