The Negro as a Biological Element in the American Population
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4048424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Montague Cobb (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publication date | 1939-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2292634 |
| OpenAlex | W2066607474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
The essential facts about the Negro as a biological element in the American population are common knowledge. He is a hybrid, presenting varying degrees of admixture of African, Indian and European blood. He is today an intrabreeding group, being prevented by circumstance and law from large scale intermixture with the white majority. He is fecund, having maintained under adverse conditions a consistently high birth rate which has. raised his numbers to approximately thirteen millions, despite a high mortality rate. He is physically strong, showing great endurance at strenuous labor under severe climatic and nutritional hardships, and producing a disproportionately large number of champions in representative fields of athletics. He is mentally able, having produced individuals of exceptional attainments in nearly every line of intellectual endeavor and integrated himself into all phases of modern life in which opportunity has opened. He is possessed of special aptitudes, as exemplified by an acute perception of pitch and rhythm, which in association with other factors, has resulted in the spirituals and jazz. He has exhibited marked adaptability to changing conditions, a fact of considerable importance in his survival on this continent. In the absence of external restrictions, he freely blends his society and his blood with those of peoples with whom he may be in contact. His future would appear to rest upon other factors than his biological quality
Element (criminal law) · Geography · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demography · Law · Race, History, and American Society
W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990)
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Physical anthropology of the American Negro
William Montague Cobb (1904–1990)
Race Relationships
Knowledge from the Margins
Bioarchaeology of the African Diaspora in the Americas
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1942 - 2021 (80) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |