Item #18180 S.J Holmes The Negro's Struggle for Survival-1937. Academia African American.

S.J Holmes The Negro's Struggle for Survival-1937

First Edition

S.J Holmes, The Negro's Struggle for Survival, A Study in Human Ecology. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1937. First edition. Original brown boards with dust jacket. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 296 pages including an index with a list of tables and illustrated with graphs and charts. The text is a study based on data including death rates, infant mortality, immunity and susceptibility to disease, the causes and biological effects of migration, and results of race mixture. Holmes was an American zoologist and eugenicist on faculty at the University of California who studied the impacts of race relations. "Being a biologist," he writes in the preface, "I have treated my theme from the viewpoint of one who observes the competition of two rival species inhabiting the same territory...It is not impossible that in the near future the Negroes may be increasing more rapidly than the whites." No group was more impacted by the Great Depression than African Americans whose progress was blocked both by poverty and racism. Governmental programs designed to provide economic relief to Americans like the federal loan program were written at the exclusion of African Americans, barring their advancement. Scholars like Holmes promoting the false threat of integration impacted both public opinion and policy. Some light marks to jacket. Spine and back cover soiled, does not affect clarity of text. Moderate shelfwear. Textblock clean and tight. Overall in very good condition.

Item #18180

Price: $285.00