Word: racialization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject has thus far stimulated. Most Harvard students realize that the wide gap between the preachment and the practise of democracy in the Army must be bridged; a foundation of that bridge lies in the mixed regiment, which is, in turn, a foundation itself for future liberalism and better racial attitudes in a post-war United States. The steps of construction must be taken...
With even more subtlety-for this was over her audience's head-she took a crack at racial snobbery. She referred, without elaboration, to "the Gobineaus and the Houston Chamberlains"-meaning the Comte de Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...
...suggest a petition similar to that of the John Reed Society advocating inter-racial army units to be sponsored by the Student Council, the representative of the whole student body. Lionel Kunst...
...petition to President Roosevelt, asking that an inter-racial unit be established in the United States Army, has been distributed to all the House dining halls by the John Reed Society, it was announced last night...
Supported by many national institutions for racial tolerance, the petition, sponsored here by the John Reed Society, is being sent from other colleges and universities as well. The message is to be from the students to the President, not from the sponsor, the group declared...