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Hooton on African Americans(1930-1940)
In 1932, Hooton wrote an article titled "Is the Negro Inferior". It was published by the Crisis magazine. He brought up the discussion of racial differences and claimed that it existed in the United States. Hooton first defined race as a matter of inheritance. As we grow up we observe that a group of people with different physical appearances also have differ manner or culture than ourselves. The differences between races has made the basis or racial differences. The conflict has begun when the natives uses their behaviors as the standard of living. As Hooton said, "We are likely to infer that the people who have been producing different manners than us belongs to a inferior races than us." We first assumed the native measure of culture is the standard and all the outcasts were inferior. Then, we developed a set of thinking that a culture is an accurate measurement of the individual intelligence. That was where racial segregation or discrimination begins.

Hooton also brought out the controversy of the intelligence test. Although the general results of such tests have been indicating that White natives have better mental status than the black people, Hooton believed we should be aware of the bias existed in those tests. Different race have different cultural background, He thought that maybe its the Whites cannot devise intelligent testes which are fairly applicable.

Inspirational words by Hooton regarding to races in America (1930-1940)
"What Is American"(1936): "The fitness of any man to live in any community depends on his ability to fall in with its ways. If he is very unadaptable, he is a criminal. He is not blond or dark. He is not tall or short. He is not German or Irish. He is a man who has been woven into American social fabric, who thinks as his fellow citizens do about accepted institutions and who conduct himself as they do. By his deeds is he to be judged: not by his looks or his geographic origin."

"RACE PREFERMENT DECLARED FALLACY"(1936): "There is no anthropological ground whatever for selecting any so-called racial groups, or any ethnic or national group, or any linguistic or religious group, for preferment of condemnation. Our real purpose should be to segregate and eliminate the unfit, worthless, degenerate and anti-social portion of each racial and ethnic strain in our population, so that we may utilize the substantialmerits of the sound majority, and the special and diversified gifts of its superior members.

"The Evolving American" (1934): "It is not until genetics is so far advanced that we can aplly it findings to the human race that such measurements as those made by me acquire real scientific Value. There is no superior or pure races in the world."