Title
Letter from Robert E. Park to Diedrich Westermann
Creator
Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944
Westermann, Diedrich, 1875-1956
Type of Resource
text
Abstract/Description
Sends information on the Encyclopedia of the Negro and will send an article on the cultural persistence of Africanisms in Bahia for the journal Africa. Wishes Westermann's opinions on persons of mixed race in Brazil versus the United States: "I find it rather difficult, in short, to reconcile the anthropological conception of the Negro with the conception that prevails in the United States where, as you know, one drop of African blood makes a white man a Negro or, to use the census definition, 'a Negro is one who is known as such in the community in which he lives.'"
Subjects and keywords
Black race
Encyclopedia of the Negro
Format
Correspondence
Manuscripts
Language
English
Rights
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Identifier
Local other: mums312-b086-i257