Word: racialization
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...series of films designed to show the primary racial divisions of the human species and the criteria of race, by "close-ups" and animated, cartoons expressed simply enough so that the school children will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...
When the smarter trains of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific lines moved out of Chicago last week, there was that about them which roused racial comment. Above the tidy uniforms of the club car attendants there shone, not the usual smiling Negro faces, but twinkling Oriental faces, the faces of twelve young Chinamen...
...that a controversy has been raging between the Pullman Co. and the all-Negro union of Pullman porters, newsgatherers made haste to inquire if the twinkling twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...
Everyone in any way connected with possessions of more or less backward people, of this or any other nation, knows that such possession carries with it racial problems of extreme difficulty, which have to be approached with respect for the legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming...
...investigations of racial types and mixtures in Yucatan is part of an extensive survey being made by the anthropology department in North Africa, Central America, and Mexico. Dr. Williams' recent investigations were made in the neighborhood of the ancient city of Chichen-Itza, which is being reconstructed by the Carnegie Institution...