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Caroline Stewart Bond Day (November 18, 1889 – May 5, 1948) was an American author and academic. She was one of the first African-Americans to receive a degree in anthropology. Day was born in Montgomery, Alabama on November 18, 1889 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Atlanta University in 1912. In 1916 she entered Radcliffe College (Harvard College's sister college for women), where she received a second degree in 1919. She became dean of women at Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas in 1920 for one year. She published various essays in the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as a short story ''The Pink Hat'', which is believed to be autobiographical. In 1927 she returned to Radcliffe, where she obtained a Master's degree in anthropology in 1930. Her thesis, “A Study of Some Negro-White Families in the United States,” published in 1932, contained sociological and anthropological information on 350 mixed-race family histories with over 400 photographs. This topic was close to Day’s own family life as she herself was of mixed race. She subsequently spent a number of years teaching at Howard University.〔 Day retired to Durham, North Carolina in 1939. She died on May 5, 1948 having been in poor health.〔 Day was the first African-American who turned her lens on her own family and social world, “Negro-White” families, in order to scientifically measure and record the hybridity of mixed race families by using the language of what she referred to as “blood-quantum” that illustrates the fraction of racial types.〔 Her research challenged the perception of inferiority of non-whites. She attempted to eliminate racial preconception and discrimination and advocated social equality for all African-Americans.〔 Although Day’s work was not well received within contemporary scholarship in the early twentieth century and still remains controversial, her scientific research re-evaluates the accomplishments of African-American women in the white-male-dominated field of physical anthropology and marks the first step in understanding and promoting African-American biological vindication. ==Birth and Early Childhood== Caroline Bond Day was born on November 18, 1889 to Georgia and Moses Steward in Montgomery, Alabama. According to her own calculations of blood quantum, Day was a mulatto; 7/16 Negro; 1/16 Indian; and 8/16 White.〔 After her father’s death, her mother moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, where she taught at Tuskegee elementary school, and married John Percy Bond, a life insurance company executive. Day took her stepfather’s last name and had a half-sister, Wenonah Bond Logan, and a half-brother, Jack Bond. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caroline Bond Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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