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“NOT AN INF EBIOR PM”IJ i*mAMERICANSSO SAYS THE GREAT ANTHROPOLOGIST AND SCIENTIST, PROF. BOAS—ENDLESS NUMBER OF THEM IF GIVEN EQUAL CHANCE.(Boston Globe »A contribution to the discussion of the negro problem in the b’nited- V', ' f jeK* % w\ . j A . .V' V }'. ' . V .. V v* , ^ ‘ ,*‘X. J - L-. .V 'ATr- V^ * ■-rStates, of quite extraordinary interest,is made by Prof. Franz Boas, the eminent American anthropologist, in The Mind of Primitive Man Not so much on humanitarian as on ethnical and scientific grounds he defendsthe negro race, whose present socialeconomic status is sufficiently explained by the forcible removal from African soil, the consequent complete loss of the o!lt;* standards of life, the demoralization of slavery and the following period of disorganization and severe economic struggle against heavy odds. Professor Boas holds that there is no proof of the theory of the negro's hereditary inferiority.Give the colored man. says the anthropologist in effect, opportunity and he will fulfil) the duties of citizenship as well as his white neighbor Although he may not produce as many great men as his white race, ard although the level of his average achievement may not quite reach that of the whites, there will be endless numbers who will outrun theirwhite competitors and who w/Ji dobetter than the defectives w hart we permit to drag down and to retard the healthy children of our publicschools.Whether the persistence of th* pure negro type is practically impossible, as'Prof. Boas believes, or whether the efforts in many southern states to prevent all racial intermixture will result in making the black race blacker and the white race whiter, matterslittle. The main thing is. that even-handed justice should be den* to both races
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Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 06, 1912
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