The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer… |
The word “Negro” is, biologically, a misnomer, for the African Negroes, brought to the United States as slaves, have crossed in breeding with the dominant White population, as well as with the aboriginal American Indian types with whom they came into contact, so that there is today only a small percentage of the American Negroes who may be considered Negro in the ordinary sense of the term.
Melville J. Herskovits, “The Physical Form and Growth of the American Negro,” Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Volume 4, Number 4 (1927): 293-316.
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