Robert Wilson Shufeldt, The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization (1907)
“ For nearly forty years past I have enjoyed unusually good opportunities to study the negro in the United States as well as in the West Indies, and that, too, in every phase of his existence, and those opportunities have never been neglected. I have met with in my life-time any number of people who have and are prejudiced against the negro purely on account of his color. ”
Robert Wilson Shufeldt, The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization (1907)
“ It is extremely rare to have the people of any civilized nation listen to the warnings of science, much less to act upon them,— and, it is still less likely to have anything of that kind happen, when the danger, as it is in this matter, is so widespread, so insidious, insinuative and so subtle. ”
Robert Wilson Shufeldt, The Negro: A Menace to American Civilization (1907)
“ The unmixed African in this country is just as much of a negro today as his ancestors were before him in Africa. He simply stands upon our soil, in every such individual case, as a potential ethnic factor ready at any and at all times to Ido his share in debasing the blood of the white race in America. There is no greater danger assailing American civilization than this,— there can be no greater danger than anything which will effect the degradation of a race, and it is the presence of this danger which has impelled me to write this book. ”
