"If all our nice friends in Beacon Street, and Newport, and Fifth Avenue, and Philadelphia, have one child, or no child at all, while all the Finnegans, Hooligans, Antonios, Mandelbaums and Rabinskis have eight, or nine, or ten--it's simply a question of the multiplication table.
I don’t remember the details but Stephen Jay Gould has an interesting origin story for some systems of racial classification: something about the number five?
Painter refers to Gould a number of times. The classification, within all groups informally defined as white today, was a big industry. It tended to exclude African-Americans, Indians, and Asians.
I don’t remember the details but Stephen Jay Gould has an interesting origin story for some systems of racial classification: something about the number five?
Painter refers to Gould a number of times. The classification, within all groups informally defined as white today, was a big industry. It tended to exclude African-Americans, Indians, and Asians.