Word: racialization
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...inscription proposed for the restored Louvain Library is "Destroyed by German fury; restored by American gifts." There are nearly two million German-born persons of voting age in the U. S., more than any other national or racial group except Jews and Negroes. The German vote, well organized, is potent. It is greatly influenced by the dignified nine-year-old Steuben Society of America, one of whose objects is to alter current ideas about War Guilt. There was, therefore, more than one reason for last week's headlines: "Hoover is Undecided on Visiting Louvain...
...asserts in the report of his research that "Africa is the one continent of the world where the application of intelligence, knowledge and good will, it is not yet too late to adopt policies which will prevent the development of the acute racial difficulties which have elsewhere arisen, and the evils of which have been recognized only after they have come into existence...
...that time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...
Writer Saleski defines "Jew" and "Jewish" at the start. He uses them not in "their religious or national sense. The method of approach is purely a racial one. He has isolated all these musicians into this one volume for the simple reason that all of them have in their veins that fire to which the Jewish prophets gave utterance in the time of Jerusalem's glory. . . . He is not concerned with their religion, past or present, but solely with their racial roots, as in the case of the Damrosch family. . . ." He proceeds then with his catalog. Among others...
...Albrecht, composer and orchestra conductor, has followed Count Keyserling and Herr Ludwig across the sea, and has stirred up rather more of a storm than his predecessors. Unless his much-discussed concert materializes. America will miss a first-hand view of royalty, and the coiners of clever generalities on racial characteristics will lose a perfectly good example...