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Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly", July, 1917
by [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] MILLER, Kelly
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N.p.: [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917], 1917. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; [3]pp. Offprint. Wrapper edges soiled and briefly chipped along upper margin; perforations for binding at bound edge; Very Good. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction, unless reinforced from the fruitful mass below." Kelly Miller (1863-1939) was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics (Johns Hopkins, 1887-89); he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University, where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, Miller was arguably the most influential Black intellectual of his era, a prolific, articulate, and widely-published advocate for Negro education and civil rights, once called by Carter Woodson "undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race.
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- Title
- Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly", July, 1917
- Author
- [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] MILLER, Kelly
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917]
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- N.p.
- Date Published
- 1917
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- Social History; African-Americana; Civil Rights; Eugenics;
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- Offprint
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- Octavo
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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