Mixed Race Studies

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And it need hardly be added that the familiar phenomenon of “passing for white,” with its inevitable consequences, must not be overlooked in examining the contention that “there is practically no negro blood in the one hundred and ten million whites.”

2013-03-02

The claim that “there has been vastly less race mixture in the northern hemisphere” than is sometimes alleged, may be questioned in the light of some data which have been submitted to us for publication by Mr. J. C. Trevor, formerly one of the Eugenics Society’s Darwin Research Fellows and now University Lecturer in Anthropology…
Race mixture: a social or a biological problem?

2012-02-09

Race mixture: a social or a biological problem? The Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949) pages 81-85 A. Dickinson The ideas of the layman on race are curiously distorted. Race is commonly identified with a given language or culture, with a group living in a common habitat or possessing a single characteristic feature…
Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response]

2011-11-28

Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response] The Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 1 (April 1940) pages 28-30 To the Editor, Eugenics Review SIR, In order that the eugenics movement shall advance successfully, the eugenics organizations must dissociate their endeavours from the widespread propaganda for race amalgamation and mongrelization. There is little wisdom in breeding selectively among…
The Mixing of Races and Social Decay

2011-06-22

The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…
The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries

2011-06-21

The study of racial mixture in the British Commonwealth: Some anthropological preliminaries Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 4 (January 1941) pages 114-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge In a recently published and noteworthy symposium entitled “Race Relations and the Race Problem,” eleven prominent American writers reviewed the sociological implications…
Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report)

2011-06-21

Racial mixture in Great Britain: some anthropological characteristics of the Anglo-negroid cross (A Preliminary Report) Eugenics Review Volume 33, Number 4 (January 1942) pages 112-120 K. L. Little The Duckworth Laboratory University Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge With the exception of a large number of family studies secured by Miss R. M. Fleming, little anthropological attention…
The influence of racial admixture in Egypt

2011-04-27

The influence of racial admixture in Egypt Eugenics Review Volume 7, Number 3 (October 1915) pages 168-183 G. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy University of Manchester I suppose it is inevitable in these days that one trained in biological ways of thought should approach the problems of anthropology with the idea of evolution as his…
Anthropological Studies of Children

2011-04-06

Anthropological Studies of Children Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 4 (January 1927) pages 294-301 Rachel M. Fleming Some ten years ago, with the guidance and help of Professor Fleure, of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, I began to study race type in women, and from the study of divergent-race characteristics…
A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children

2011-04-06

A study of the intelligence of Anglo-Chinese children Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 2 (July 1938) pages 109-119 P. C. Hu Department of Psychology University College, London I. OBJECT OF THE INQUIRY The present investigation was carried out with the object of determining the general intellectual level of Anglo-Chinese children, and of dscovering what differences,…
Whatever action may be taken to prevent such intermixture in the future, if it can be proved to be undesirable, it certainly seems a bad policy of citizenship to penalize half-castes for a fault of birth for which they are in no way responsible.

2010-12-10

For some time past the writer has been in close contact with girls of Anglo-Chinese and Anglo-Negro origin who are unable to find employment because social stigma refuses to allow them to mix in our society in the ordinary way. They are British citizens, and they are the weakest of our citizens, and as such…

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