Victoria Shmidt brings together the issue of historical roots of segregation with the legacy of colonial and socialist policies in Central Eastern European countries. Victoria started her academic career within the field of critical social policy, and this period formed part of her broader interest to the historical roots of ongoing institutional violence against diverse disfranchised groups. In 2008, Victoria transferred to the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and began to elaborate on the issue of institutional violence against the Roma and people with disabilities in the Czech lands. It has led her to deepening the approaches towards race science and racial thinking as agents and structures of nation-building and inclined to revise the spatial, temporal and ideological borders in the taken-for-granted approaches toward the role of researchers and academic institutions in the most extremal forms of transgression.

• 1 Introduction: the Recontextualization of Blumenbach’s legacy in uncertain times (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- 2 “In The Course of Time”: The Formative Drive and “Dégéneration” in Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s Varieties of Humankind (Simone De Angelis).- 3 Blumenbach’s Conceptualization of Human Perfection and its Evolution through the History of Colonial Power (Victoria Shmidt).- 4 The Dissemination and Alteration of Blumenbach’s Racial Classification in Nineteenth-Century Polygenetic US-Ethnology and French Anthropology (Malin Sonja Wilckens).- 5 Blumenbach’s Malay Variety: Language and Emotionality in a Transitory Race (Ivana Pražić, Khairunnisa A Shukor, Sara Shakilla Mohd Salim, and Shakila Che Dahalan).- 6 Pedagogies of White Domination: Blumenbach’s Legacy and Racial Classifications in Romanian Science and Secondary Schools, 1870-1914 (Cosmin Koszor-Codrea).- 7 Imperfect Evolution: A Formative Force in Soviet Studies of Oligophrenia (Kseniya Brailovskaya).- 8 Conclusion: Blumenbach's Legacy and the Continuing Reconsideration of Race in Science (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- Index.

Victoria Shmidt brings together the issue of historical roots of segregation with the legacy of colonial and socialist policies in Central Eastern European countries. Victoria started her academic career within the field of critical social policy, and this period formed part of her broader interest to the historical roots of ongoing institutional violence against diverse disfranchised groups. In 2008, Victoria transferred to the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and began to elaborate on the issue of institutional violence against the Roma and people with disabilities in the Czech lands. It has led her to deepening the approaches towards race science and racial thinking as agents and structures of nation-building and inclined to revise the spatial, temporal and ideological borders in the taken-for-granted approaches toward the role of researchers and academic institutions in the most extremal forms of transgression.

• 1 Introduction: the Recontextualization of Blumenbach’s legacy in uncertain times (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- 2 “In The Course of Time”: The Formative Drive and “Dégéneration” in Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s Varieties of Humankind (Simone De Angelis).- 3 Blumenbach’s Conceptualization of Human Perfection and its Evolution through the History of Colonial Power (Victoria Shmidt).- 4 The Dissemination and Alteration of Blumenbach’s Racial Classification in Nineteenth-Century Polygenetic US-Ethnology and French Anthropology (Malin Sonja Wilckens).- 5 Blumenbach’s Malay Variety: Language and Emotionality in a Transitory Race (Ivana Pražić, Khairunnisa A Shukor, Sara Shakilla Mohd Salim, and Shakila Che Dahalan).- 6 Pedagogies of White Domination: Blumenbach’s Legacy and Racial Classifications in Romanian Science and Secondary Schools, 1870-1914 (Cosmin Koszor-Codrea).- 7 Imperfect Evolution: A Formative Force in Soviet Studies of Oligophrenia (Kseniya Brailovskaya).- 8 Conclusion: Blumenbach's Legacy and the Continuing Reconsideration of Race in Science (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- Index.

Victoria Shmidt brings together the issue of historical roots of segregation with the legacy of colonial and socialist policies in Central Eastern European countries. Victoria started her academic career within the field of critical social policy, and this period formed part of her broader interest to the historical roots of ongoing institutional violence against diverse disfranchised groups. In 2008, Victoria transferred to the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and began to elaborate on the issue of institutional violence against the Roma and people with disabilities in the Czech lands. It has led her to deepening the approaches towards race science and racial thinking as agents and structures of nation-building and inclined to revise the spatial, temporal and ideological borders in the taken-for-granted approaches toward the role of researchers and academic institutions in the most extremal forms of transgression.

• 1 Introduction: the Recontextualization of Blumenbach’s legacy in uncertain times (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- 2 “In The Course of Time”: The Formative Drive and “Dégéneration” in Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s Varieties of Humankind (Simone De Angelis).- 3 Blumenbach’s Conceptualization of Human Perfection and its Evolution through the History of Colonial Power (Victoria Shmidt).- 4 The Dissemination and Alteration of Blumenbach’s Racial Classification in Nineteenth-Century Polygenetic US-Ethnology and French Anthropology (Malin Sonja Wilckens).- 5 Blumenbach’s Malay Variety: Language and Emotionality in a Transitory Race (Ivana Pražić, Khairunnisa A Shukor, Sara Shakilla Mohd Salim, and Shakila Che Dahalan).- 6 Pedagogies of White Domination: Blumenbach’s Legacy and Racial Classifications in Romanian Science and Secondary Schools, 1870-1914 (Cosmin Koszor-Codrea).- 7 Imperfect Evolution: A Formative Force in Soviet Studies of Oligophrenia (Kseniya Brailovskaya).- 8 Conclusion: Blumenbach's Legacy and the Continuing Reconsideration of Race in Science (Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis).- Index.