Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants
Report
By: Immigration Commission; Franz Boas
Date: 1910
Source: The Immigration Commission. "Introductory." Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants, 61st Congress, 2d sess. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910, 5; Boas, Franz. Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants, 61st Congress, 2d sess. Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910, 7–8.
About the Author: Franz Boas (1858–1942) was one of America's leading anthropologists and experts on race and ethnicity. Born and educated in Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1886 and became a professor at Columbia University.
Introduction
From its founding in the seventeenth century, there was to many something remarkably special about America. Newcomers quickly realized that the streets were not paved with gold, but the land seemed uniquely...
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