 | National Institute of Social Sciences - Social sciences - 1917 - 276 pages
...the blood of the original Spanish conquerors by the native Indian population has produced the radical mixture which we call Mexican, and which is now engaged...selfgovernment. The world has seen many such mixtures of races, and the character of a mongrel race is only just beginning to be understood at its true value.... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 432 pages
...that a round skull Jew on his way across the Atlantic might and did have a round skull child, but that a few years later, in response to the subtle elixir...self-government. The world has seen many such mixtures of races, and the character of a mongrel race is only just beginning to be understood at its true value.... | |
 | Melvin L. Silberman, Freda Hansburg - Business & Economics - 2000 - 372 pages
...biological, not a cultural, contrivance) really accomplishes, Grant argued, is best exemplified by "the racial mixture which we call Mexican, and which...demonstrating its incapacity for self-government." Here, indeed, are the stakes of immigration policy, and the underlying peril of the "melting-pot" ideal.... | |
 | Benjamin Heber Johnson - History - 2003 - 268 pages
...the separate "races" of the earth, Americans needed to look no further than across the Rio Grande, "where the absorption of the blood of the original...demonstrating its incapacity for selfgovernment." In the early 19205, Congress essentially codified Grant's philosophy into legislation. The Immigration... | |
 | Kevin Johnson - History - 2004 - 268 pages
...Restrictionist Madison Grant expressed similar reservations about Mexican immigrants around this time: "What the Melting Pot actually does in practice can...is now engaged in demonstrating its incapacity for self-government."267 Efforts to remove supporters of Arab and Muslim political causes in the name of... | |
 | A. D. Powell - Psychology - 2005 - 139 pages
...biological, not a cultural, contrivance) really accomplishes, Grant argued, is best exemplified by "the racial mixture which we call Mexican, and which...demonstrating its incapacity for self-government." Multiracial ancestry that is now presented to Americans as a variety of "white," was once held up as... | |
 | Regna Darnell, Frederic W. Gleach - Reference - 2006 - 301 pages
...6. It may be added that Grant's view of Latin Americans was also set by his distrust of mixed races: "What the Melting Pot actually does in practice can be seen in Mexico, where the absorption of blood of the original Spanish conquerors by the native Indian population has produced the racial mixture... | |
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What the Melting Pot actually does in practice, can be seen in Mexico, where the absorption of the blood of the original Spanish conquerors by the native Indian population has produced the racial mixture which we call Mexican, and which is now engaged... 