Word: racialization
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Matthiesson asked his audience, "Are we liberals; are we for racial equality in America? In 1936, people were thinking in terms of progressive reform, while now we have lost sight of those ideals due to the complications brought by the war. Is socialization to come...
...Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that new employment opportunities, as well as the general ferment of ideas caused by the war, have given the Negroes greater economic power...
...always, he took a few swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America -the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative...
...Line. Before Pearl Harbor U.S. fascism was blatant and aggressive. Federal agents and public hostility have driven it to cover. So today's techniques are largely confined to whispering campaigns in industrial centers, promotion of racial violence, draft dodging, food hoarding, agitation for "democratic" opposition to the Administration. The objective, says Carlson, is to sabotage "with every means at their command, a quick Allied victory ... to ,prolong the conflict in order to intensify . . . work of dissension...
...worked for Russell Roberts, who explained his plan for firing rocks from slingshots into the windows of Detroit's Negro section-with disastrous effects on production and racial compatibility...