Word: racialization
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...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
...Philistine outburst. Intelligent Americans will blush to think that this is the reception we accord distinguished European artists, and that the grossness of Mr. Moses is the measure of our understanding of city planning." Cried one Bernard Mazel: "[Moses' article] sounded like one of Nazi Germany's racial discussions of Kultur filled with references to 'refugee,' 'foreigners,' . . . only omitting the phrase, 'Why don't they go back where they came from...
...bill to give the vote to Canadian soldiers overseas had gone through the House of Commons with a roar of unanimous approval. Everyone was pleased. But concealed in the bill's legal verbiage was an ugly clause. It would enable any provincial legislature to bar, for racial reasons, Canadians everywhere in Canada from voting...
...last week white and black Americans lived together in the Army. But it was not an unhyphenated life. The deep-seated racial prejudices of U.S. citizens could not be put aside by the brotherhood of arms and military authority. The War Department had had some trouble and feared more from the Negro problem...
Negro draftees came to the Army with inferior training, fewer skills than whites, a fact decisively established by classification tests. The Army has recently tried to improve chances for Negro officer promotions, while it continued segregation for "military expediency." But the Army officially accepted "no doctrine of racial superiority or inferiority." Said an Army directive to officers": "All people seem to be endowed . . . with whatever it takes to fight a good war, if they want to and have learned how." The Army admitted that it must depend in the end on individual commanding officers. On this point Dean Hastie said...