Alfred L. Kroeber (1876-1960)

"Anthropology: The Powerful Concept of Culture has been Extended to Explain Much of Human Behavior and to Eliminate Some Artificial Distinctions among Groups of Men"

Scientific American, vol. 183, no. 3, 1950, p. 87-94.

"The most significant accomplishment of anthropology in the first half of the 20th century has been the extension and clarification of the concept of culture... The outstanding consequence of this conceptual extension has been the toppling of the doctrine of racism—that bland assumption of race superiority which is so satisfying emtionally to most people and so unwarranted. We have learned that social achievements and superiorities rest overwhelmingly on cultural condition." (Kroeber 1950)