Word: racialization
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...outside interests landed him in jail. In a Louisville criminal court, he was sentenced under Kentucky's sedition law to 15 years in prison and fined $5,000 for "advocating sedition." The case resulted from what the state prosecutor called a "Communist-inspired plot to stir up racial trouble between whites and Negroes...
...FIRE-RAISERS, by Marris Murray, was one of the best entries in the year's huge literary safari to Africa. It was a merciless diagnosis of what its South African author calls "Africa sick ness," the complex of racial snobbery, fear and prejudice which has poisoned the lives of her white characters...
When 80-year-old Daniel Malan resigned the Prime Ministry of South Africa last month, hope stirred that there might be a respite in the racial and political tensions which have long troubled that land. South Africa needed a period of peace to attract much-desired foreign capital, and Malan maneuvered to have Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga, a moderate member of the dominant Nationalist Party, succeed him. Last week the Nationalist Party caucus frigidly rebuffed Malan, rejected Havenga, and unanimously elected as Prime Minister a man with the racist principles of Adolf Hitler and some of the Nazi leader...
Concentration on Doing. The council decided: 1) to hold meetings every three years instead of two; 2) to urge members to make more use of the council's new aids to laymen faced with "difficult ethical problems"; 3) to encourage churches "to venture more courageously into racial and cultural inclusion"; 4) to "repudiate completely all forms of racial discrimination...
...actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains a Rio newsman: "Brazil made Portugal rich, and Portugal left Brazil...