{"id":24638,"date":"2012-08-04T04:25:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T04:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24638"},"modified":"2017-04-09T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:41:08","slug":"the-negro-in-washington-a-study-in-race-amalgamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24638","title":{"rendered":"The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/008870040\" target=\"_blank\">The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walter Neale, Publisher, New York<br \/>\n1930<br \/>\n332 pages<br \/>\nOriginal Classification ID: E185.93.D695<br \/>\nSource: University of California via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hathi Trust Digital Library<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. H. Shannon, B. D., M. A.<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Former Chaplain of the Mississippi State Penetentiary<br \/>\nMember, American Anthropological Association<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/008870040\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/imgsrv\/image?id=uc1.$b538877;seq=7;width=1020\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. A Personal Word to the Reader.<\/li>\n<li>B. Introduction.<\/li>\n<li>I. Statement of the Case.<\/li>\n<li>II. The Mulatto<\/li>\n<li>III. Illegitimacy<\/li>\n<li>IV. Isabella and Jamestown<\/li>\n<li>V. The Near-White.<\/li>\n<li>VI. The Poor-White<\/li>\n<li>VIII. Politics and the Race Problem<\/li>\n<li>III. Race and Religion<\/li>\n<li>IX. Colonization as a Solution of the American Race Problem<\/li>\n<li>X. Some Conclusions and a Forward Look<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A PERSONAL WORD TO THE READER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author of this book has been, for some years, a \u00a0close observer of race relations and a student of those \u00a0problems growing out of racial contacts. As Chaplain of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, he was called \u00a0upon to minister to several hundred Negro prisoners, \u00a0thus gaining a measure of intimate knowledge of the Negro criminal. As a teacher in the employ of the \u00a0Imperial Government of Japan, he was privileged to \u00a0make a brief study of an Oriental civilization. Here \u00a0was gained some knowledge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eurasian_(mixed_ancestry)\" target=\"_blank\">Eurasian<\/a> problem, so acute in some of the Asiatic countries and in evidence \u00a0wherever contact of East and West has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture\u2014the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">Mulatto<\/a> problem\u2014and most of his writings have had to do with this evil. The present study, while endeavoring to ascertain and to state fact impartially,\u00a0necessarily gives a large measure of personal reaction \u00a0to certain of the problems involved in present-day contacts of the two races, the black and the white, in the\u00a0United States. Whoever really understands conditions\u00a0now obtaining in North America is prepared to understand the situation wherever two dissimilar races occupy the same territory, or wherever casual racial contacts occur\u2014as they now do throughout the greater\u00a0part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>There is a conscious and an intentional limiting of\u00a0this study largely to those features of the situation which may well tend toward discouragement, if not\u00a0toward hopeless pessimism. Since it now appears\u00a0fashionable to approach the Negro problem from the\u00a0standpoint of the invincible optimist, resolutely ignoring\u00a0or consciously discarding those facts which, fairly faced,\u00a0would shatter so many pleasing theories, it is well that\u00a0some one should present the darker side of the picture,\u00a0for there is a terribly dark side. The reader, once the\u00a0situation is clearly analyzed and its elements indicated,\u00a0may be trusted to interpret aright the issues unquestionably involved. Americans, white and black alike, are\u00a0not awake to the real situation confronting them, a fact\u00a0clearly evidenced by more than half century of silence\u00a0and indifference touching the vital issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=553\" target=\"_blank\">race amalgamation<\/a> and the conditions under which this is now occurring.<\/p>\n<p>As an answer to the ever-ready charge of ministering\u00a0to, if not creating, racial antagonisms and hates\u2014a\u00a0charge behind which there sometimes lurks more of\u00a0moral and of intellectual inertia than some good people\u00a0are aware of\u2014there is to be noted the difference between a clear statement of fact, a clear-cut challenge\u00a0to the self-respect of each of two groups, and a maligning of one group by the other. If it has come to the\u00a0pass that a calm facing of fact, a thorough analysis of\u00a0a given situation, must be opposed because it reveals\u00a0the destructiveness of an inherited unreasonable and\u00a0unreasoned program, there should, at least, be a clear\u00a0understanding of the attitudes displayed and a close\u00a0scrutiny of the motives behind these attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Both races in America, especially in the United States, are confronted by facts demanding careful consideration; by problems the solution of which depends primarily upon thorough analysis as the basis for a full\u00a0understanding of what is really involved. Various organizations, secular and religious, are in the field, voluntarily endeavoring to carry out programs which they\u00a0are free to make what they will. Most of these would\u00a0resent the charge that they are contributing directly\u00a0to moral confusion and to racial degradation. Most\u00a0of them would resent the charge that their work and\u00a0the attitudes upon which it rests constitute the most\u00a0destructive influence against which the full-blood Negro\u00a0must contend at the present time. Can it be shown that such charge is untrue? If only there could be a\u00a0general and an honest, dispassionate inquiry, bringing\u00a0these matters into the realm of conscious thought and\u00a0purposive program, there would be hope of constructive action. If this volume assists the reader to break\u00a0with traditional lines of thought and the attitudes and\u00a0the programs based upon these lines of thought, thus\u00a0promoting independent analysis and rationally constructive programs, it will serve a useful and a timely\u00a0purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The author is forced into a position which is es\u00a0sentially unpleasant. It becomes necessary to point\u00a0out the grounds of criticism, the delinquencies, of those\u00a0who, holding positions of leadership\u2014political, educational, religious\u2014have failed to see, or seeing have\u00a0failed to meet, or have met with utter indifference, the\u00a0problems here discussed. Upon the part of the leaders\u00a0of both races there has been, at best, a light estimate\u00a0of the trust reposed in their leadership. No further\u00a0evidence is necessary to establish this fact than to call\u00a0attention to present conditions and to the manner in\u00a0which these conditions have grown up, without effective protest or warning, and that they are now generally\u00a0accepted, without analysis, and without intelligent evaluation of their logical, their inevitable, results.<\/p>\n<p>The thanks of the author are due to both Authors \u00a0and Publishers permitting the use of quotations appear\u00a0ing in this volume. Credit is given in each case. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.asanet.org\/governance\/Reuter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Professor E. B. Reuter<\/a> has been especially generous, permitting the unrestricted use of material the collection\u00a0of which necessarily cost him much expense, in addition,\u00a0to time and labor involved. His book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2238\" target=\"_blank\">The Mulatto in\u00a0the United States<\/a><\/em>, is a very valuable statement of\u00a0ultimate fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire book <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/uc1.$b538877\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief interest of the author in the Negro problem has centered about the matter of racial intermixture\u2014the Mulatto problem\u2014and most of his writings have had to do with this evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,8,17,394,20],"tags":[11474,11473,11472,11475,11412,11438,11476,3549],"class_list":["post-24638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-a-h-shannon","tag-alexander-h-shannon","tag-alexander-harvey-shannon","tag-alexander-shannon","tag-hathi-trust-digital-library","tag-the-hathi-trust-digital-library","tag-walter-neale","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638","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=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53363,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions\/53363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}