What Colour is Intelligence?: Kent County and the Tanser Study
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Authors
McCorkindale, Deirdre
Date
2025-04-29
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thesis
Language
eng
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Black Canadian , Black American , History , African American , African Canadian , Segregation , Ontario , Canada West , Scientific Racism , White Supremacy , I.Q , Eugenics , Intelligence Testing , Kent County , Chatham , North Buxton , Dresden , Dawn Settlement , Elgin Settlement , Black Settlement , Eugenics , William King , North Star Myth , Underground Railroad , 19th Century Ontario , 20th Century Ontario , Abolitionism , Racism in Canada , Anti-Black Racism
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In 1939 Dr. Harry Ambrose Tanser, the Superintendent of Schools for Kent County, published a study entitled The Settlement of Negroes in Kent County, Ontario, and A Study of the Mental Capacity of their Descendants. This book contained the findings of a racial intelligence study Tanser had preformed on Kent County’s children that earned him a PhD in Pedagogy from the University of Toronto. Tanser’s book was a product of and contributor to the centuries long practice of scientific racism. His book was also informed by and a contributor to the historiography surrounding Black Settlement in Kent County specifically. This dissertation explores Tanser’s racist intelligence study as both a piece of Kent County’s local history and part of the larger project of white supremacy’s use of science in North America.
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