A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro
by Kelly Miller
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About this eBook
- Author
- Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939
- Title
- A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 1
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Shell, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E151: History: America: United States
- Subject
- Hoffman, Frederick L. (Frederick Ludwig), 1865-1946. Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31279
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31279
- Release Date
- February 15, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The American Negro Academy. — Occasional Papers, No. 1. — A REVIEW — of — HOFFMAN’S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, — BY — KELLY MILLER. — Price, Twenty-five Cents. — WASHINGTON, D. C. PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY. 1897. — OCCASIONAL PAPERS.
- 2.A REVIEW OF HOFFMAN’S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO.
- 3.CHAPTER I. — Colored Population of the United States. — Negroes in Cities. — Black Belts.
- 4.CHAPTER II. — Death Rate. — Birth Rate. — Is the Negro Threatened with Extinction. — Mortality among Whites in Southern Cities. [25] — Death rate among Negroes in Southern Cities. [27] — Annual Death Rate of the Colored Race for three quinquennial periods. [28] — Death rate of Colored Soldiers in the U. S. Army. [29] — The Northern Negroes. — Consumption among Negroes. — Death rate per 1000 among Negroes from Consumption. [35] — Vital Capacity and Economic Efficiency.
- 5.CHAPTER III.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. — I. The Mulatto is Physically Inferior to both Parent Races. — 2. The Mulatto is Morally Inferior to the Blacks. — 3. The Mulatto is Intellectually Superior to the Blacks but Inferior to the Whites. — Weight of the Brain of White and Colored Soldiers . [42] — Mixed Marriages.
- 7.CHAPTER V. — Religion and Education. — Criminal Record. — Prisoners in the United States, 1890. [50] — Number of prisoners in several southern states (to the million of population.) — Rape and Lynching. — Social Morality. — Colored population.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. — The Negro as a Farm Hand. — The Negro as an Industrial Factor. — Accumulation of Property.
- 9.CHAPTER VII.
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