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Author Asbury's conclusions are disputed by Sociologist John H. Burma of Grinnell College, who thinks the "authorities" exaggerate. In the American Journal of Sociology he argues that the number of Negroes passing as whites is much smaller...
Facts about Negro "passing" are understandably hard to come by. Guesstimates have depended largely on a pioneering study made in 1921 by Duke University Sociologist Hornell Hart...
Fathers & Sons. A much more reliable index of Negro passing than Hart's, Burma thinks, is a study of 346 mulatto families made by Sociologist Caroline Day. She found that 10% of these families had members who had passed. Estimating that 40% of the 2,750,000 U.S. Negro families are comparable to Dr. Day's group (in their proportion of white blood), Burma figured that there are some 110,000 passers all told. His estimate of the number passing each year...
Jones built up an interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...
...World to Win takes Presidential Agent Lanny Budd, a peripatetic pink who poses as a fascist, from the fall of France through the U.S. declaration of war. Lanny is a spy, plutocrat (son of a munitions magnate), sociologist, art expert, musician, "psychical researcher" and avid reader of Bluebook magazine-all in a handy, handsome, 6-ft. package...