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THIS study of a group of Indian-white-negro crosses is a sociological and eugenic study of a group which has lived in the same locality in Virginia for more than a hundred years. It originated from a white-Indian union, with later introductions of ‘mean-white’ and negro strains. The group consists of about five hundred individuals in an area approximately eight miles long by four miles broad. They are mostly living on the land. The original white family, judging from its social and economic position, was probably above the average. The descendants are almost without exception below the low white in average ability.
Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe.
By A. H. Estabrook I. E. McDougle. Pp. 205 + 2 plates. (Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1926.) 13s. 6d. net.
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Mongrel Virginians: The Win Tribe . Nature 119, 812 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119812c0
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