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The American Medical Association shows interest in the measurement of skulls in order to classify race.

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One American Medical Association (AMA) committee reports that “[the] Negro brain is nine cubic inches less than the Teutonic [European]." This is further used to justify and achieve the notion of the intellectual, physical, emotional, and developmental "inferiority" of Black people.