The Biological Status And Social Worth of the Mulatto
The Biological Status And Social Worth of the Mulatto
Harvey Ernest Jordan
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The Negro is then simply a black variety of the human species. He is the white man's brother; and we may both be cousins of the apes. The second question that presents itself is this : Is the mulatto nec- essarily degenerate? The idea has been and is very eminently and widely held that the crossing of races is intrinsically bad, biologically harmful; that it inevitably and inexorably works deterioration. Agassiz noted in Brazil a decadence that results from cross-breeding which goes on in this ...country to a greater extent than elsewhere. This cross-breeding is fatal to the best qualities whether of the white man, the black, or the Indian, and produces an indescribable type whose physical and mental energy suffers. 1 ( ( The Psychology of Peoples, " New York, 1912, p. 4. TEE MULATTO 575 Humboldt and Darwin held the same opinion. Hilaire Belloc in ^^The French Eevolution" notes regarding Marat Some say . . . That a mixture of racial types produced in himi a perpetual physical disturbance: his face was certainly distorted and ill-balanced (p.
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