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How Many Negroes "Pass"?
E. W. Eckard
American Journal of Sociology
Vol. 52, No. 6 (May, 1947), pp. 498-500
Published by: University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2770527
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Abstract
In an attempt to check the conclusion advanced in Collier's of August 3, 1946, that approximately 30,000 light Negroes "pass" into the white race per year, census figures for the white and Negro populations of 1930, adjusted for deaths and immigration, were compared with the 1940 population aged ten and over. According to the 1940 census there were 26,000 more whites than calculated and 26,000 fewer Negroes. These figures indicate that the number of Negroes "passing" from 1930 to 1940 was very small, probably less than 2,600 per year.
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