Word: racialization
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...Decades in advance of the Nazi theory of . . . racial superiority, the Argentinians were well accustomed to calling themselves a 'white stock nation' as a mark of distinction. . . . Notwithstanding strong similarities in culture . . . [with other Latin American nations] . . . the Argentinians feel themselves a kind of European aristocracy forced to live by a trick of fate in wild surroundings...
Like a score of similar Southern novels, the book is a story of racial conflict in a small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have...
...Pseudopodia. In demand as a speaker, gifted with a whispery, well modulated voice, she began work with Southern church groups, also interviewed prospects for the Julius Rosenwald Fund,* changed her literary magazine to the politically conscious South Today, and began to put into practice the new credo of Southern racial reform...
...last month's American Magazine New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman wrote: "There have been many great changes at home since the war began. One . . . has been an increase in the prevalence of bigotry, evidenced by . . . race riots, assaults on groups and individuals because of racial and religious differences, desecration of synagogues and churches...
...Y.M.C.A. and Negro and labor organizations which sponsored the pamphlet The Races of Mankind, attacking Nazi racial doctrines, were gloomy when the U.S.O. banned it (TIME, Jan. 31). Then the Army bought 55,000 copies and total sales mounted to 290,000. This week the Army banned the pamphlet...