Cited by Gordon K. Lewis in Caribbean Studies © 1974.
This book is part of a plan, of which the embryo was conceived many years ago. The purpose, which in 1952 seemed less obvious and perhaps less naive than today, was to compare with each other a wide range of societies within which there were ethnic or physical differences carrying some social significance, to consider in each the degree of social importance attached to physical characteristics, and to consider what other factors might be responsible for the differences in social structures that emerged. (...) The Caribbean, it was often said, was a natural laboratory. The numerical proportions of the races, the history of conquest, the differing cultures and religions of the colonial powers, economic factors, and terrain - all these made differences which would illuminate the subject.
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