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Kuttner opposed [[race mixing]] and believed it was "unnatural", only found amongst [[zoo]] animals. Anthropologist [[Robert Sussman]] has described Kuttner as a "lifelong neo-Nazi".<ref name="Sussman"/>
Kuttner opposed [[race mixing]] and believed it was "unnatural", only found amongst [[zoo]] animals. Anthropologist [[Robert Sussman]] has described Kuttner as a "lifelong neo-Nazi".<ref name="Sussman"/>


He wrote for [[Roger Pearson (anthropologist)|Roger Pearson]]'s ''Northern World'', and the floundering ''[[The American Mercury]]''. He was editor with ''[[Mankind Quarterly]]'', for which he redacted the work ''Race and Modern Science'', in response to the [[UNESCO]] statements on race.
He wrote for [[Roger Pearson (anthropologist)|Roger Pearson]]'s ''Northern World'', and the floundering ''[[The American Mercury]]''. He was editor of the ''[[Mankind Quarterly]]'', for which

He redacted the book ''Race and Modern Science'' (1967), in response to the [[UNESCO]] statements on race. It was negatively reviewed by [[Sherwood Washburn]] who described it as a "useful source book for racists. Anthropologists need not bother with it."<ref>Washburn, Sherwood. (1968). ''Reviewed Work: Race and Modern Science: A Collection of Essays by Biologists, Anthropologists, Sociologists and Psychologists by Robert E. Kuttner''. ''[[American Anthropologist]]'' 70: 1035-1037.</ref>


==Works==
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Robert E. Kuttner (10 March 1927 – 19 February 1987) was an American biologist.

Biography

Kuttner was an initial director of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics and was contributor and associate editor to Charles Lee Smith's Truth Seeker.[1]

Kuttner opposed race mixing and believed it was "unnatural", only found amongst zoo animals. Anthropologist Robert Sussman has described Kuttner as a "lifelong neo-Nazi".[1]

He wrote for Roger Pearson's Northern World, and the floundering The American Mercury. He was editor of the Mankind Quarterly, for which

He redacted the book Race and Modern Science (1967), in response to the UNESCO statements on race. It was negatively reviewed by Sherwood Washburn who described it as a "useful source book for racists. Anthropologists need not bother with it."[2]

Works

  • Kuttner, Robert E. (ed.) Race and Modern Science. New York: Social Science Press, 1967.

References

  1. ^ a b Sussman, Robert W. (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-674-41731-1
  2. ^ Washburn, Sherwood. (1968). Reviewed Work: Race and Modern Science: A Collection of Essays by Biologists, Anthropologists, Sociologists and Psychologists by Robert E. Kuttner. American Anthropologist 70: 1035-1037.