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PROF. LIPSCHUTZ explains that what he means by Indo-americanism is the vindication of the economic and cultural rights of the masses of Indians and mestizos of America, who have been up to the present “disinherited”. His book is a plea for an “Indo-american resurrection”, which, it may be noted, has already been partly brought about in Mexico. He attacks what he calls “racial hypocrisy”, that is, the justification of the inferior social position in which certain portions of the population are kept, by the excuse that those of American Indian or African Negro blood are racially inferior to the descendants of Europeans. A considerable part of the book is a discussion of the supposed biological inferiority and superiority of different races of mankind, and the degeneration that is popularly supposed to result from racial miscegenation. He deals not only with the American Indians but also with the African Negro, and makes use of the abundant anthropological literature that now exists on this subject.
El Indoamericanismo y el Problema Racial en las Américas
Por Prof. Dr. Alejandro Lipschutz. Segunda edicion. Pp. 501 + 32 plates. (Santiago: Editorial Nascimento, 1944.) n.p.
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RADCLIFFE-BROWN, A. El Indoamericanismo y el Problema Racial en las Américas. Nature 156, 158 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156158a0
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