Word: racialization
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Last month racial feeling reached fever heat when a score of whites snatched Horace Ida off the streets of Honolulu, drove him out to Pali, soundly beat him after threatening to throw him to death off the cliff. Ida claimed but could not prove that U. S. sailors were responsible...
Governor Lawrence Judd attempted to belittle the outburst of crime and racial animosity on his islands, begged the citizenry to remain calm. Said he: "Conditions warrant no occasion for alarm. The law enforcement agencies have the situation fully in hand...
...Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process by starting as a painter, ending as a dancer (TIME, July...
...Detroit Negro solved his personal unemployment problem by becoming a Mohammedan, taking the name Mehmed All Bey and wangling passage for his wife, ten children & grandchildren to Turkey. Arrived at Istanbul, ingenious coal-black Ali besought Dictator Kemal Pasha thus: "In the name of 28,000 Moslems suffering from racial problems in America, I petition you to accord land on the shores of the Bosporus where we may create a flourishing American town and enjoy Turkey's traditional impartiality to Negroes...
...Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago has under organization a notable contribution to anthropology. In its Hall of Living Man it plans to have 120 life-size bronze statues representing men & women of every contemporary human race. As far as possible they will be prime racial specimens, like Yale's collection of stuffed champion dogs (TIME, Sept. 14). Commissioned to do the work is able Sculptress Malvina Hoffman of Manha tan and Paris...