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Earlier this year a debate at University College London asked Why Isn¡¯t My Professor Black?

Michael Arthur, the UCL provost, was asked by a student during a panel session why the institution continued to celebrate Francis Galton, the father of eugenics.

¡°There is a collection after his name, a lab after his name, even a lecture theatre after his name ¨C what is the basis for this man to be celebrated when there is no basis for black academics and black alumni to be celebrated in this campus?¡± the student asked.

Professor Arthur replied: ¡°You¡¯re not the first person to make that point to me; my only defence is that I inherited him.¡±

The ¡°inheritance¡± of Galton is explored in this short film which accompanies a follow-up event at UCL on 10 October 2014, and is titled: ¡°Eugenics at UCL: We inherited Galton¡±.

Click here for an article on Galton¡¯s legacy at UCL, and the wider complicity of universities in eugenics, by Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, research associate in the philosophy of ¡°race¡± at University College London.