Intelligence of Negroes of Mixed Blood in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4850342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H A Tanser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1941 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 650 |
| Publication date | 1941-10-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/2293027 |
| OpenAlex | W2325509660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Miscegenation, as between the White and Negro races, presents an interesting field for study. Herskovits, Hooton, Peterson and Lanier, and others have attempted to investigate such socalled racial differences as those which concern colour of skin, hair and eyes, thickness of lips, the nasal breadth, prognathism, interpupillary distance, texture of hair, etc. An attempt has also been made to study the relationship between intelligence and certain Negroid traits. As a result of his research a few years ago Herskovits' came to the conclusion that the American Negro is forming a type which lies somewhere between the European, the African, and the American Indian. The increasing uniformity of type in the American Negro he attributes to social rather than biological factors. Peterson and Lanier,2 after testing ninety-one cases on the Otis, and forty-nine cases on the Myers, report that there is no significant relation between lightness of skin colour and intelligence. They find a coefficient of correlation of .044?.067 for the first group, and .180+.091 for the second group. While Davenport and Steggerda,3 on investigation of race crossing in
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |