Burks, Barbara S., Steggerda, Morris (1940) Potential marital selection in Negro college students. Sociology and Social Research, 24. pp. 433-441.
Abstract
From a student enrollment of approximately 800 men and 600 women at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 146 men and 116 women submitted signed ballots on the question "what constitutes the characteristics of your ideal husband or wife?" The ideal composites are as follows: Wife: 5 ft. 4 inches, well formed, brown eyes, light complexion, good hair texture; good mixer, sweet disposition, high standards of morality, religious without being sectarian. Husband: 5 ft. 11 inches athletic, brown eyes, medium dark complexion, fair hair texture; college education, sociable, may be dominating but kind, high standards of morality, religious without being sectarian. For both sexes traits of size, personality, complexion, hair, and education were specified more frequently than traits of character or religious training.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Subjects: | history > eugenics |
| CSHL Authors: | |
| Communities: | The Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics |
| Depositing User: | Elizabeth Pessala |
| Date: | 1940 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2018 18:33 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2018 18:33 |
| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/36008 |
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