A Review of Hoffman’s Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro

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A Review of Hoffman’s Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro by Kelly Miller.

Contents

• A REVIEW6
• HOFFMAN’S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO,7
• KELLY MILLER.8
• Price, Twenty-five Cents. WASHINGTON, D. C. PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY. 1897.8
• OCCASIONAL PAPERS.8
• A REVIEW OF HOFFMAN’S RACE TRAITS AND TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO.10
• CHAPTER I.12
• Colored Population of the United States.13
• Negroes in Cities.16
• Black Belts.17
• CHAPTER II.19
• Death Rate.19
• Birth Rate.19
• Is the Negro Threatened with Extinction.20
• Mortality among Whites in Southern Cities.[25]21
• Death rate among Negroes in Southern Cities.[27]22
• Annual Death Rate of the Colored Race for three quinquennial periods.[28]23
• Death rate of Colored Soldiers in the U. S. Army.[29]23
• The Northern Negroes.24
• Consumption among Negroes.24
• Death rate per 1000 among Negroes from Consumption.[35]26
• Vital Capacity and Economic Efficiency.27
• CHAPTER III.29
• CHAPTER IV.31
• I. The Mulatto is Physically Inferior to both Parent Races.31
• 2. The Mulatto is Morally Inferior to the Blacks.32
• 3. The Mulatto is Intellectually Superior to the Blacks but Inferior to the Whites.33
• Weight of the Brain of White and Colored Soldiers.[42]34
• Mixed Marriages.37
• CHAPTER V.38
• Religion and Education.38
• Criminal Record.38
• Prisoners in the United States, 1890.[50]39
• Number of prisoners in several southern states (to the million of population.)42
• Rape and Lynching.43
• Social Morality.44
• Colored population.45
• CHAPTER VI.47
• The Negro as a Farm Hand.47
• The Negro as an Industrial Factor.47
• Accumulation of Property.48
• CHAPTER VII.49
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE56

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