Fingerprints and Race

In this video you will learn about...

The role that racism played in 19th and early 20th-century scientific understandings of “race” as well as other flawed assumptions that guided this work;

The fact that studying differences in fingerprint patterning across different racially-defined populations constituted a major area of dermatoglyphics research throughout the 20th century;

Furuhata Tanemoto (1891-1975) and the “Furuhata index,” a concept that was used in such studies.