books such as william c. ripley's races of europe published in eight team -- 1899 and important for a quarter of a century. books such as william c. ripley's races of europe once essential reading on brace for now remaindered as useless. and if you are jewish, calling a race within due straight into the anti-semitic column. reminders at jews and italians have been labeled as racist a generation earlier, might as prompted a retort that race was used more loosely in the past. this is true. but every use of race has always been lives, whether applied to black him a white, yellow, brown, red or other. no consensus is ever formed on the number of human race is or even on the number of white races. criteria constantly shift according to individual taste and political need. it was clear however that in the olden days, the 20th century, [laughter] in the olden days, jim crow had kept the colored races apart from whites and african-americans largely hidden behind segregation's bail. shortly after the end of the second world wa

think of frances walker and william ripley for him foral cod authority. half a century later the of people with the civil rights era turned the looking glass are bound bringing white people under scrutiny. think of malcolm x and james bald when. today the attractive qualities that saxons, anglo-saxons were whites were soon to monopolize oral soon to be found elsewhere. after a string of small white mrs. america, jennifer lopez and beyonce knowles are submitted as duties, tiger woods and the williams sisters, venus and serena, a sports, the founder of bet, bill cosby and flecha jr have made millions, oprah winfrey is rich and famous, call one perlo and condoleezza rice have been secretaries and alberto gonzales attorney general. even more to the point of uniting power and beauty, barack obama is president at the united states. first leedy michelle obama whose skin color alone would have contended her ugliness in the 20th century figures as an icon of beauty and intelligence of global stage. none of these individuals is white but being white these days is n

william ripley had predicted this outcome in 1908, above all they inharmonious, that's his words, the and harmonious mixing of italian men and irish women. [laughter] >> but he now would have been forced to reconsider his prediction that such a racial mix would make americans ugly. we have already seen the lowering of racial boundaries starting in the 1940s, when ethnic began replacing race as applied to the descendents of european immigrants. that use a racial groups for white people has become more than category to, partly because white people are so mixed up. finally, the near whiteness count for less in the present situation. while the stigma of blackness, once just one drop to curse the white individual, also seems less mortal. back in the 20th century, white people were assumed to be rich, or at least middle-class, as well as more beautiful, powerful and smart. george bush did away with that. [laughter] >> sorry. that is not in the book. to lay. stuff it back in. as citizens and scholars, they said what needed to be known and monopolized the study of other people. with themselve

william c. ripley predicted this outcome in 1908 fearing above all the inharmonious, that is his word, affixing a by italian men and irish women. [laughter] but now he would have been forced to reconsider his prediction that such a racial mix would make americans ugly. with authorities and a lowering of racial boundaries starting in the 1940's when ethnic began to replace a race with the descendants of european immigrants the use of racial groups for white people has become more than a category too partly because white people are so mixed up. finally the percoset of new whiteness account for less than the present situation of the stigma of blackness wants one drop also seems less moral. soon to be rich are middle-class or powerful or smart. george bush did away with that. [laughter] sorry. that is not in a book. too late. stuff it back and. s. citizens and scholars they said what needed to be known and monopolize the study by the people but with themselves being scrutinized in return. for whom formal e

>> the appeal is that your people who ever they are assuming let's just make you william t. ripley for the moment. you are a well educated new englanders wealthy background harvard yale or columbia has a way of explaining why you are beautiful and a nice and they are ugly and poor. throughout the world. thank you. >> hello. i heard you mentioning the fact with the white slavery a near up a long time ago. >> not just a long time ago. it has been in our world. >> but this white slavery that slot and slave are surprisingly similar spare surprisingly distant it spent there were sharp differences between people in europe and now going to a census form and use the one box four right be quite. >> every country and does it differently but france does not. >> but on blogs on you have a box or if you go back coming through ellis island for this undesirable unruly best of my question is given that now the poin box was wise may be and 100 years you will not see a box of all four race. >> that is possible because people are so mixed up. now we have our little mini revolt without checking the wh