Word: melanin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Essentially, the controversial professor claimed, Blacks, or "people of the sun," are superior to whites, or "people of the ice," because the melanin that makes their skin dark also endows them with greater physical strength and intelligence...
Clarke herself, with Victoria Kennedy '97, wrote a letter to the Crimson attacking the book and citing opposing views linking melanin to "superior mental and physical abilities...
...Five: Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards...
...Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin, that same chemical that gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities," they write...
...There are a lot of things other than melanin or melatonin that are crucial [to intelligence]," he said. "Especially one's environment, which [the letter] points...