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  • Race mixture: a social or a biological problem?

    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…

  • Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle

    Migration and Race Mixture from the Genetic Angle The Eugenics Review Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1959) pages 93-97 Sir Macfarlane Burnet, O.M., F.R.S., Director Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research This paper was prepared at the request of the Department of Immigration for discussion by delegates at the Australian Citizenship Convention. The…

  • Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response]

    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

    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

    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)

    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…

  • Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations

    Some anthropological characteristics of hybrid populations The Eugenics Review Volume 30, Number 1 (April 1938) pages 21-31 J. C. Trevor, Leonard Darwin Research Fellow It should be explained that “hybrid” is used here in its restricted zoological sense, viz. as relating to intraspecific rather than to interspecific crosses. The adjective “mixed,” though convenient, can be…

  • 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.

    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…

  • Half-Caste [Book Review]

    Half-Caste [Book Review] The Eugenics Review Volume 29, Number 2 (July 1937) pages 141-142 Reviewed by Michael Fielding Dover, Cedric. Half-Caste. London, 1937. Secker & Warburg. Pp. 324. Price 1os. 6d. This book is dedicated to a member of the Council of the Eugenics Society. So if we are a bad lot, as bad as…

  • Some Refelctions on Eugenics and Religion

    Some Refelctions on Eugenics and Religion Eugenics Review Volume 18, Number 1 (April 1926) pages 7-14 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, ScD., Hon. D.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Bishop of Birmingham, England The Galton Lecture delivered before the Eugenics Education Society at their Meeting in London on Tuesday, February 16th, 1926. Eugenics is the science of…