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New Handbook Refutes Racial Theories

April 20, 1939
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A handbook on racial origins, entitled “We Americans,” will be published by Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, on April 27. The 128-page book, “dedicated to Liberty, tolerance, democracy,” refutes totalitarian racial theories and discusses American principles. Contributors include Franz Boas, Edward P. Cheyney, Edward A. Hooton, Ales Hrdlicka, Alvin Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Dumas Malone and H.L. Mencken.

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