The Negro in American History: A taste of freedom, 1854-1927Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1969 - African Americans Vol. 1, A taste of freedom, 1854-1927. Vol. 2, Slaves and masters, 1567-1854. Vol. 3, New Your, New York. |
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... social farce in the acceptance by " White America " of the Negro's cultural gifts while at the same time withholding cultural recognition , - the reward that all genius merits and even requires . The orthodox social mind on this race ...
... social farce in the acceptance by " White America " of the Negro's cultural gifts while at the same time withholding cultural recognition , - the reward that all genius merits and even requires . The orthodox social mind on this race ...
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... social equality , " - in short , " White Supremacy , " - is held to be the one reservation every typical White man is supposed to make and every typical Negro is expected to concede . Cultural recognition , on the other hand , means the ...
... social equality , " - in short , " White Supremacy , " - is held to be the one reservation every typical White man is supposed to make and every typical Negro is expected to concede . Cultural recognition , on the other hand , means the ...
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... social dilution which threat- ens at its weakest point the race integrity he boasts of maintaining and upholding . In the light of this active contradiction of its own social creed by its own social practice , White orthodoxy on the ...
... social dilution which threat- ens at its weakest point the race integrity he boasts of maintaining and upholding . In the light of this active contradiction of its own social creed by its own social practice , White orthodoxy on the ...
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ALAIN LOCKE The High Cost of Prejudice | 3 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR Nixon v Herndon | 10 |
WILLIAM PICKENS The Emperor of Africa | 20 |
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