The Importance of Race in the American Body Politics

i'll quote. Seese, who said that without homogeneous, easily identifiable quotes races, the entire edifice of racial hier archy crumbled. Once you really tried to define what a race was, much less quantified with calipers or measuring tapes, you found that you were holding ashes in your hands right? This goes back to inoboa's being employed by congress at the beginning of the twentieth century to try to understand how emigration,. this mass of island emigration, was affecting the american body politic if you like.