Word: racialization
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...surgeon, about to make a transfusion, scientifically matches a donor's blood to his patient's to such purpose that no shock results. In like manner Congress has ordained that Immigration shall be scientifically matched to the U. S. racial bloodstream...
National Origins. This was not a scientific way to filter aliens into the U. S if the original native stock of the country was to be preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition of the present day U. S., starting from the first U. S. census (1790. pop 3,900,000), analyzing the growth of population to date with reference to national ancestries and thus, in effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that...
Postponement. The British burned most early U. S. census details in the sack of Washington in 1814. Native stock, clear in the early days, was blurred by intermarriage with alien newcomers. Historical data is scant or unreliable. Racial names have become meaningless through social changes. So the 2Oth Century scientists bogged down in confusion and Congress in 1927, postponed the effective date of National Origins to July 1, 1928; later to July 1, 1929, where it now remains...
...informal program will be followed. This evening will be given over to discussion groups. Two of these, those dealing with "Social Service and the Social System" and with "The Problem of Racial Minorities," will be led by J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and R. H. Hill 1T.S. respectively. On Saturday morning a speech by Dr. Gilkey will be followed by various forums. Saturday afternoon will be devoted to winter sports; and in the evening Dr. Gilkey will speak again. Morning watch service and an afternoon Communion service will conclude the scheduled events...
...Because the women of Northern Italy are more robust and the men more intelligent than those of the South, II Duce, for racial reasons, expects them to give a big proportion of the additional babies he asks for his campaign...