This article analyzes a series of studies by Ginsberg on race relations in Brazil. It tries to describe the inflection process of the vision of a psychologist who, based on behavioral research, started using socio-anthropological arguments for the understanding of racial disparities. This change was caused by the influence of the studies of social psychologist and anthropologist Otto Klineberg, Columbia University, a former advisee of Franz Boas and a severe critic of intelligence tests and the heuristic value of the race concept.
Aniela Ginsberg; racism; intelligence tests; racial attitudes