Don’t You Love Science?

“The association of eugenics with race, social class and the emerging ideas about ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ cultures was unmistakable. The terms themselves were first used around the turn of the century to describe people of intellectual or aesthetic superiority (highbrow) or inferiority (lowbrow). They were derived from phrenology, a nineteenth-century practice widely used in determining racial types and intelligence by studying the size and shape of the skull with the presumption that the cranial shape indicated a person’s mental faculties and character” (William Romanowski, Pop Culture Wars, p. 76).