{"id":15681,"date":"2013-04-09T04:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15681"},"modified":"2014-11-11T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T16:08:12","slug":"this-country-is-in-for-hybridization-on-the-greatest-scale-that-the-world-has-ever-seen%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15681","title":{"rendered":"This country is in for hybridization on the greatest scale that the world has ever seen\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Not only physical but also mental and temperamental incompatibilities may be a consequence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">hybridization<\/a>. For example, one often sees in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulattoes<\/a> an ambition and push combined with intellectual inadequacy which makes the unhappy hybrid dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others.<\/p>\n<p>To sum up, then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>\u00a0commonly spells disharmony\u2014disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities and this means also disharmony with environment. A hybridized people are a badly put together people and a dissatisfied, restless, ineffective people. One wonders how much of the exceptionally high death rate in middle life in this country is due to such bodily maladjustments; and how much of our crime and insanity is due to mental and temperamental friction.<\/p>\n<p>This country is in for hybridization on the greatest scale that the world has ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles B. Davenport, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15669\" target=\"_blank\">The Effects of Race Intermingling<\/a>,\u201d <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society<\/em>, Volume 56, Number 4 (1917): 364-368.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only physical but also mental and temperamental incompatibilities may be a consequence of hybridization. For example, one often sees in mulattoes an ambition and push combined with intellectual inadequacy which makes the unhappy hybrid dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others. To sum up, then, miscegenation\u00a0commonly spells disharmony\u2014disharmony of physical, mental and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4348,4350,4349],"class_list":["post-15681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-charles-b-davenport","tag-charles-benedict-davenport","tag-charles-davenport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}