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 HALF A MAN

 THE STATUS OF THE <DW64>
 IN NEW YORK

 BY
 MARY WHITE OVINGTON

 _WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. FRANZ BOAS
 OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY_

 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
 FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
 LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
 1911


 _Copyright, 1911, by_
 LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

 THE. PLIMPTON. PRESS
 [W. D. O]
 NORWOOD. MASS. U. S. A


 TO
 THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
 THEODORE TWEEDY
 OVINGTON




FOREWORD


Miss Ovington's description of the status of the <DW64> in New York City
is based on a most painstaking inquiry into his social and economic
conditions, and brings out in the most forceful way the difficulties
under which the race is laboring, even in the large cosmopolitan
population of New York. It is a refutation of the claims that the <DW64>
has equal opportunity with the whites, and that his failure to advance
more rapidly than he has, is due to innate inability.

Many students of anthropology recognize that no proof can be given of
any material inferiority