Reading Pudd'nhead Wilson | Alexandria
Read Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. Exposing racism's pseudoscience, Pudd'nhead Wilson's fingerprint analysis demolishes 19th-century beliefs about biological destiny. Twain's satirical masterpiece reveals a shocking truth: society, not nature, manufactures racial categories. His prescient critique of "scientific racism" speaks powerfully to modern debates about genetics and identity.