Word: racialization
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...that Brooklyn's Dodgers had broken through baseball's racial barrier, at least half a dozen other big-league clubs were scouting Negro talent. Last week the Cleveland Indians signed up powerful, 22-year-old Larry Doby, an infielder who has been batting .458 with the Newark (Negro) Eagles, and leading the league in home runs. Doby refused to believe the news until the Indians got down to specific details: did he want to go to Cleveland by plane or train? Said Doby: "Just this once let's take the train. I'm excited enough...
...first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
Scattered opposition to the bill on other than racial grounds came today from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle...
...chance, and sent organizers among the Canal Zone's 25,000 Panamanian and West Indian employees, most of whom lived in crowded slums across the fence in Panama. They found a Communist's dream. Ready for their exploiting was one of the worst examples of racial discrimination extant anywhere, and it was sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
...Sylvester, himself a Catholic, the "terrible obscurantism" is what made some conservative U.S. Catholics pro-Fascist before the war, because they were ready to believe that Mussolini et al. would stamp out Communism. They were also antiliberal, anti-Negro, and anti-Semitic for a number of reasons, including Irish racial snobbism. As fiction, Moon Gaffney is hardly rnore than earnest and competent, but it is most impressive as a blast against bias, false Irish pride and the local little Father Coughlins...