Word: racialization
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...Future. The U.S. has now abandoned isolationism and has "joined the world . . . America feels itself to be humanity in miniature. When in this crucial time the international leadership passes to America, the great reason for hope is that this country has a national experience of uniting racial and cultural diversities-and a national theory, if not a consistent practice, of freedom and equality for all. . . . In this sense, the Negro problem is not only America's greatest failure but also America's incomparably great opportunity for the future...
...Mexican weekly: "The Nazis of Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas tolerating "even Texans...
Roberto Medellin of the Ministry of Labor said last week that no laborers will be sent to Texas for the time being because "cases of extreme, intolerable racial discrimination" were continuing...
Such troublous facts and troubling doctrines were making double trouble last week. They were set forth in The Races of Mankind, a 46-page, 10? pamphlet published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc., designed to fit a serviceman's pocket and to fight Nazi racial doctrines. The pamphlet was brightly written by Columbia Anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish, and brightly illustrated (see cut). But U.S.O. President Chester Irving Barnard had called the pamphlet controversial and ordered the Y.M.C.A. to stop distributing it in U.S.O. clubs-after 50,000 copies had been sold...
...Detroit's Cranbrook Institute of Science opened an exhibit designed to teach racial tolerance to the city which has had the worst U.S. race riots in years. Many points made by the Institute's displays were drawn from The Races of Mankind...