William Z. Ripley

Anthropologist, Author

1867 – 1941

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Who was William Z. Ripley?

William Zebina Ripley was an American economist, lecturer at Columbia University, professor of economics at MIT, professor of political economics at Harvard University, and racial theorist. Ripley was famous for his criticisms of American railroad economics and American business practices in the 1920s and 1930s and later his tripartite racial theory of Europe. His work of racial anthropology was later taken up by physical anthropologists, eugenicists and white nationalists and was considered a valid academic work at the time.

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Born
Oct 13, 1867
Medford
Also known as
  • William Ripley
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Employment
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Columbia University
  • Harvard University
Died
Aug 16, 1941

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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