{"id":24561,"date":"2012-07-31T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24561"},"modified":"2017-09-06T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:45:14","slug":"from-negro-to-caucasian-or-how-the-ethiopian-is-changing-his-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24561","title":{"rendered":"From Negro to Caucasian: or, How the Ethiopian is Changing His Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Negro to Caucasian: or, How the Ethiopian is Changing His Skin<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pilot Publishing Company, San Francisco, California
\n1929
\n65 pages
\nSource: University of Michigan via The Hathi Trust Digital Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Louis Fremont Baldwin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes<\/em><\/p>\n

A concise presentation of the manner in which\u00a0many Negroes in America who, being very fair in\u00a0complexion, with hair naturally or artificially free\u00a0from kink, have abandoned their one-time affiiliations with Negroes, including their own relatives, \u00a0and by mingling at first commercially or industrially, then socially with Caucasians, have ultimately\u00a0been absorbed by the latter.<\/p>\n

Prepared and published at the request of the Society for the Amalgamation of the Races
\nNew York, Paris and London
\nPilot Publishing Company
\n617 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Calif.<\/p>\n

PREFACE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reader is earnestly asked to accept as authentic and reliable the information that is given in this\u00a0book. The writer is indebted to many friends\u00a0throughout the country from the Atlantic to the\u00a0Pacific and from the St. Lawrence to the Rio\u00a0Grande.<\/p>\n

These friends rendered valuable assistance enabling him to locate the individuals with whom he\u00a0has held interviews related in the text, and from\u00a0whom he was able to gather information that\u00a0impressed him with the fact, of the enormous num\u00a0ber of Colored Americans, who have sufficient ad\u00a0mixture of bloods in their veins, to alienate them\u00a0in appearance from the American Negro.<\/p>\n

More startling still is the discovery of the great\u00a0numbers of this contingent of the so-called Negro\u00a0race, who have deserted-and forsaken kith and kin,\u00a0and become merged with, or rather absorbed by\u00a0the American Citizenry as the latter pursues the\u00a0ordinary paths of trade, commerce, industry and\u00a0professions, and . . and matrimony.<\/p>\n

The reader will also recognize how complicated\u00a0the situation\u2014but this does not mean that the situation is necessarily calamitous,\u2014but how difficult\u00a0for any person, particularly those whose ancestors\u00a0resided “In The South” to be perfectly sure that there is not “a drop of Negro blood in their veins!<\/a>” \u00a0That it can be there, goes without saying, as the \u00a0incidents mentioned in the text that follows plainly show, but just as millions of Negroes\u2014Negroes\u00a0with fair complexions and perfectly straight hair,\u2014\u00a0those who have not “Crossed Over” as well as\u00a0those who have, have white blood in their veins,\u00a0why the author asks, can there not be millions of \u00a0persons who believe themselves to be white, yet \u00a0have Negro blood in their veins, obtained by the\u00a0methods that it has been thought appropriate to \u00a0bring to the attention of the public through the\u00a0publication of this book.<\/p>\n

\u2014THE AUTHOR.<\/p>\n

Let the undersigned assure the readers of this\u00a0book that after he had read the proof-sheets, he\u00a0felt it his duty to give the author permission to\u00a0add his personal testimony as to the prevalence\u00a0of the practice alleged to be in vogue. He can\u00a0confirm what is stated as occurring in so many\u00a0instances, because a branch of his own family\u00a0“Crossed Over” some few years ago, and has become completely absorbed in the white race.<\/p>\n

\u2014A. E. SHADD, Bishop of the United Holy Church of America; Western & Pacific Coast District<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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