How did Boas’s research undermine the validity of the primary measurements used in identifying race during the early 1900s?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Boas’s research on sound blindness showed that the listener’s unfamiliarity with foreign sounds, not an inability to hear the distinctions, causes the challenges. His use of the cephalic index with recent immigrants and those who lived in the U.S. for several years showed that it was a measurement that changed and was not fixed.
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