Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 304

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MISCEGENATION.) DAY, CAROLINE BOND. A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States . . . with a Foreword and Notes on the Anthropometric Data by Ernest A. Hooton. Copious illustrations and charts. Tall, large 4to, original cloth. Cambridge: Peabody Museum of Harvard University, 1932
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

first edition, scarce. A serious, landmark study of intermarriage and the rather strange historical methods of measuring the percentage of Negro blood in the offspring of such unions; i.e., mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc. Caroline Bond Day was an African-American in the post-graduate Anthropology department at Harvard when she wrote this. Includes studies of some of America''s most famous black families.