| | 1 | Author: | Eugenics Record Office | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugenics Record Office Records
| | | | Dates: | 1670-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Eugenics was inevitably entangled in many aspects of American social and political life, and particularly in setting and supporting national policy with regard to immigration and the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities. The ERO Records reflect the eugenical fascination with identifying race-based traits and with locating clear lines of demarcation between the races in terms of behavior, intelligence, and physical characteristics. Race is a particularly clear factor in several files in the Trait Files Series I (documenting the inheritance of purportedly discrete genetic characteristics): "Jamaica anthropometry" (Box 4), "Race suicide and childlessness" (Box 7), "Twins, Negro" (Box 13), "Skin color," "Spotted skin," and "Mulattoes" (Box 26), "Finger prints - Jamaica schoolchildren" and "Woolly hair" (Box 27) and several files under the heading "Race," "Race crossing," and "Negro" (Box 61, 62, 64). The Fitter Family Studies (Series VI) displays an equal concern for racial demarcation, and include some correspondence with the Race Betterment Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.77 | | | | Extent: | 330.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Algonquin Indians | American Eugenics Society | Apache Indians | Aztecs. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Carib Indians | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Cuna Indians | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Eskimos | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Gelatin silver prints | Genetics | Heredity | Human genetics | Indians of Central America -- Panama | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880 | Photomechanical prints | Plains Indians | Pueblo Indians | Race, race relations, racism | Sioux Nation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. | Station for Experimental Evolution | |
| 2 | Author: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]
| | | | Dates: | 1853, 1882-1959 | | | | Abstract: | There are at least two items in this collection which may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Hurston, Zora Neale. " The Florida Expedition (#46)." n.d. 3 pages. Brief report by a student of Franz Boas on fieldwork in Florida studying African American folklore, story-telling, religion, and common-held beliefs. Hurston notes that "the bulk of the population now spends its leisure in motion picture theatres or with the phonograph and its blues." King, Louis E. " Negro life in a rural community (#49)." Circa 1931. 166 pages. Anthropological dissertation study of African American life in a rural community during the years 1927-1931. The work is divided into several sections: Background, Family Life, Breadwinning and Shelter, Education, Activities of the Group, Leaving Home, and Comparing Life in Different Rural Communities.. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | 'Nak'waxda'xw | 'Namgis | Achumawi language | African Americans -- Florida | African Americans -- Folklore | African Americans -- West Virginia | Airplanes | American ginseng | Anishinaabe | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Ants -- Folklore | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Awa'etłala | Babies -- Care | Banister, John, Jr. | Baptists -- North Carolina -- History | Basket making | Bears | Bella Coola Indians | Bella Coola language | Benin -- History | Betrothal | Birds -- Folklore | Cats -- Folklore | Chatino language | Chehalis language | Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions | Cherokee Indians -- Education | Cherokee Indians -- Fishing | Cherokee Indians -- Folklore | Cherokee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Games | Cherokee Indians -- Government relations | Cherokee Indians -- History | Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure | Cherokee Indians -- Marriage customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Material culture | Cherokee Indians -- Medicine | Cherokee Indians -- Military service | Cherokee Indians -- Music | Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government | Cherokee Indians -- Religion | Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs | Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- Tennessee | Cherokee dance | Cherokee language | Child care | Children -- Death | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity -- Africa | Chukchi -- History | Clothing and dress -- Middle East | Comox Indians | Corn -- Folklore | Creation -- Mythology | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | DEnaxdax | Da'naxda'xw | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Dogs -- Folklore | Drawings. | Dzawada'enuxw | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology -- Africa | Ethnology -- Russia | Ethnology -- United States | Face painting | Fairs -- North Carolina | Field notes. | Fijians -- Social life and customs | Fire -- Folklore | Folk music -- Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore -- Africa | Folklore -- British Columbia | Folklore -- Florida | Folklore -- Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Ghost stories | Ghosts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Gop'inuxw | Gourds | Group portraits | Gusgimukw | Gwasala | Ha'xwamis | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haudenosaunee | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Hymns | Illustrations. | Imprisonment -- North Carolina | Indians of North America -- Alaska | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kootenai language | Koskimo | Kwagu'ł | Kwakiutl language | Kwikwasutinuxw | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Ma'amtagila | Makah Indians | Mamalilikala | Mandan language | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Milky Way -- Folklore | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | North Carolina | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Nuu-chah-nulth | Nuxalk Indians | Ojibwe people | Omens | Oowekeeno Indians | Owls -- Folklore | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pleiades -- Folklore | Pomo language | Powwows | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Rabbits -- Folklore | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Sarsi Indians | Sarsi language | Sermons | Shasta language | Sioux Nation | Sketches. | Slip files | Smallpox -- United States -- History | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social psychology | Sound recordings | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Swearing | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit Indians | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Tsetsaut Indians | Tsimshian language | Tsuut'ina language | Tunica language | Turtles -- Folklore | Twi (African people) | Tłatłasikwala | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) | Volga River Region (Russia) -- History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Witches -- Folklore | Word lists | World War I | World War, 1939-1945 | Wuikinuxv | Xuyalas | Yana language | Zapotec language | Ławit'sis | |
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