Word: racialization
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...attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...
...Britishers will pursue a large variety of subjects in the U. S.-ranging from bacteriology to the Scottish influence in 18th Century America, from agricultural geography to city planning, from economics to inter-racial problems, from law to electrochemistry. They will scatter themselves at many a university: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Clark (at Worcester, Mass.), Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Stanford...
...obscured while winning notoriety. The case has already established public relations with the defects of the Massachusetts judicial system, the standard of integrity maintained in the district attorney's office, theories of evidence, and labor agitation. It remained for the New Republic to allege that there is also a racial question at stake...
Discussions of the moral aspects of birth control have brought forth some odd contentions. It is maintained that birth control would cause racial deterioration; in the first place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the second place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the third place because there is an association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where...
...quite the fashion for ignoramuses to make fun of eugenics. Unfortunately their witty observations do not change the situation. Feeblemindedness, epilepsy, certain types of insanity and numerous physical abnormalities are hereditary. Every country is afflicted with more than a sufficient percentage of these undesirables. An increasing proportion means racial deterioration. And the birth rate of those of low mentality everywhere is greater than the birth rate of those of high mentality...