The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-06-20
MRS.
SCHUYLER Saws
By Josephine Schuyler)
Calvin Service Commentator
AnthrOpOlOgists Should Know


races" by laymen, politicians and
eugenists who are not anthropolo-
gists and who have never, appar-
emily, read any authorities on the
subject, that it is a real pleasure
to read the opinion of man who
is at the top of this profession.
Professor Hooton of Harvard, in
a recent addition of Science" de-
clared that there was no such
thing as an "Aryan race" that my
thical gang that the Hitlerites up
hold in their new ancestor wor-
ship. Neither is there a German"
French" or English" race. Such
terms, says Prof. Hooton, imply
nationality, use Of a common Ian
guage and some degree of confor-
nifty to a pattern of culture, no
more. A pure race" is little more
than an abstraction, and racial
purity" is to be found only in rem
nants of savage groups in isolated
wildernesses. The present races"
he points out, have intermingled
and interbred for many thousands
of years, so that their genealogical
lines have become ineXtricably
confused. The South Sea Islanders
are an obvious example of the COM
posite nature of the divisions Of
mankind. They represent, he says,
stabilized blend of white, Negro
and Monaghan. l often wonder
when l went to see such moving
pictures as Bali" which was
greatly acclaimed by the white
press here, how anyone could miss
the fact that there were HUNDREDS
Of bay" type along Seventh Ave-
nue. in Harlem.
ditary variations of bodily form
have for centuries been made the
basis of charges of racial inferiori-
ty in mentality and capacity for
civilization. with this Contempt
BILE subterfuge our European an
cestors," the professor declares,
Justified enslavement of the Ne
gro and their virtual determination
Of the Indian and many other pri-
mitive peoples"
Negroes here are of the Ameri-
can race exactly as much as the
peopl of England or France of the
English or French race" That is,
If you are going to be inaccurate
in using the term race" at least be
consistent in the inaccuracy. Any
peoples living for long under a
common culture are, if you are go
ing to use the term loosely, race.
Just as people say the Jewish"
race. There is actually no such
thing as a Jewish race" but there
is a Jewish culture.
Aframericans Ca much more ac-
curate term than "Negroes") live,
like the rest of the folks here. in
and American culture. They are
then, like the Euroamerican, a peo-
pie born and reared here but of
foreign ancestry. The Amerindian
is the first" American, and every
body else here is simply later"
American and that's all.
Women Made Not Born
Let those who imagine that wo-
man is ever the same, read "Femi-
nine Attitudes of the Nineteenth
Century" This new book reveals
that women even in the last hun
dred years have changed as often as
the economic system. In Eighteen
Hundred she was classic" went
in for straight line dresses and ma
turalism, revolt form the roman
ticism of the previous ge.Twenty
years later she returned to coque-
try and by Eighteen Fifty she had
become the perfect" lady type.
Then another revolt began to brew
and the suffrage movement, dis
rupted by the Civil War, again
grew stronger, the rest we know.
Southern Culture Criticized
V. F.. Calverton, we'll know writ
er and editor of the Modern Month
ly went to town on the South in
Scribner's for May. Dixie is now,
he says, as it was in it's pioneer
days, in the grip Of a puritanical
dictatorship which is barren and