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Thank you for A2AHere it is.A photo from the Swedish People's show at the Constacademia in Stockholm in March 1919, and on the left in the picture is a photo of Jenny Lindh. In the middle of the picture Gaston Backman's bust and the bust on the left, by the sculptor Christian Eriksson, shall represent a ‘typical same’. The picture originally published in the paper Hvar 8th. Illustration: Malmström, StockholmVery first idea about races came with the Swedish well known scientist Carl von Linné 1707-1778)His idea was to separate people, animals and plants and divide them into groups in a so-called "scientific" way.Linné divided Homo sapiens into different groups depending on their home and colour and claiming that each race had its own characteristics. Indians were choleric, red, simple, eager and combustible. Africans described him as flegmatic, black, slow, and negligible, Asian were melancholy, yellow, stiff, serious and greedy, Europeans were pale, muscular, fast, smart, inventive...The Rasbiological InstituteIn 1909, the Swedish Society was formed for racial hygiene. Herman Lundborg was a strong lobby to establish a racial scientific institute. This unique decision was taken by both chambers of Sweden on 13 May 1921, the Rasbiological Institute in Uppsala was founded in 1922 with State aid and Herman Lundborg as head of racbiological research. With dimensions, crumbling circle and shooting dimensions, he then drives around in Sápmi and measured his skulls on the Sames and determined the biological difference between people and people. He took blood tests, examined the people on the body, listened to families' medical histories, explored the social status of the people and established their character characteristics because of their appearance. He posted records and photographed and he could show his findings to posterity at the ”Folktypsutställningen” which wandered around all over Sweden. Many were the women and men involved in the humiliation of Sames, Finns, Roma and Jews. The heavy positions are clear messages: Race-mixed and foreign traits are associated with crime and social problems.Swedish law on compulsory sterilisationOn 26 July 1933, the Justice Department took up a bill on compulsory sterilisation. People are sterilized without giving their approval. Only in 1976, the 1934 compulsory sterilisation law was replaced by a law on voluntary sterilisation. In 1936, Gunnar Dahlberg took responsibility for the State's racbiological institute. Under his leadership, the Institute's focus was changed towards a minor racbiological basis. In his 1940 book 'Archive and Race' he says that 'racial biology is an expression of national prejudices and has nothing to do with science', and he believes that the differences in appearance between Sames and other Swedes are due to environmental factors. Dahlberg got sick and died in 1956, the Rasbiological Institute was closed down in 1958 and the research was transferred to the institution of medical genetics at Uppsala University.The photos are still there. At Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala University Research Library, stored up to 12 000 photographs. By men and women, children and old. Some are naked, some are dressed in public costumes – everyone is seriously looking at us from the 1920s of Sweden. These images are the most tangible result of the activities of the world's first racbiological institutes.A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.Sami BloodsameblodEn inblick i rasbiologins historiaNär rasbiologin gavs plats i Göteborgs finaste festsalar – ”Det var väldigt accepterat” - DN.SESvenska sällskapet för rashygien - PolimasarenEn meningslös sortering av människorMycket viktig läsning om rasbiologiI backspegeln: Den svenska rasbiologin