| Thomas Nelson Page - African Americans - 1904 - 346 pages
...record boldly the results of his observations. In the chapter on " Moral Lapses," the author says: " All who know the Negro recognize, however, that the...Negro character constitutes the main incitement to degeneracy of the race and is the chief hindrance to its social uplifting. " The Negro's ethical code... | |
| Thomas Dixon - Fiction - 2005 - 492 pages
...Thomas, an educated Negro, says of his own race; 'The chief and overpowering element in his make up is an imperious sexual impulse, which, aroused at the slightest incentive, sweeps aside all restraint.' James Weldon Johnson, a more modern Negro writer, says: 'In the cone of the heart of the... | |
| Michele K. Gillespie, Randal L. Hall - History - 2009 - 240 pages
...the notorious African American Negrophobe William Hannibal Thomas as an authority on the male Negro's "imperious sexual impulse, which, aroused at the slightest incentive, sweeps aside all restraint" (196). 113 Dixon's gruesome and violent post-rape lynching scene— including details of... | |
| Robert Wilson Shufeldt - African American criminals - 1915 - 476 pages
...previously quoted work : "He [the negro] is regarded as a creature of lascivious habits, personal vanity, and physical laziness. All who know the negro recognize,...and is the chief hindrance to its social uplifting." (Pp. 176, 177.) My study of the negro, as he exists in the United States, has convinced me that he... | |
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