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1374 An American Dilemma
the Negro In his place’ 5
and above all else he can be counted on to be firm and resolute
in all his dealings with black folk of every type and class. . . .
“Thus a great part of ‘knowing the Negro’ is a thorough understanding of the
operations of this type of interracial sentiment and of how to employ it in managing
the Negro and ‘keeping him in his place.’ Where firmness is required rather than
sympathy, where ruthlessness is the order of the day rather than consideration, a
white man who ‘knows the Negro’ is the most effective agent procurable. What he
doem^t know about the Negro is the factor that produces the race problem.” (O^.
pp. 6-7 and 8.)
“Perhaps no single phrase has been more frequently used in discussing the race
problem in America than the familiar declaration, ‘I know the Negro . .
.’
“Negroes have always met this remark with a certain faint, knowing smile. Their
common experience has taught them that as a matter of fact there are vast reaches of
Negro life and thought of which white people know nothing whatever, even after
long contact with them, sometimes on the most intimate terms.” (lbid,y p. i.)
Baker, of. cit.y pp. 38-39. As early as 1899, ex-Governor Northen of Georgia,
in a speech at Boston, noted that the two races were drifting apart in the South.
(“The Negro at the South,” p. 7, quoted by Walter F. Willcox, “Negro Criminality,”
Journal of Social Science [Decembefy 1899], pp. 87-88.)
For an example of how laughter is a part of the interracial etiquette, see Jonathan
Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South (1938), pp. 255-259.
3^ P. 67.
Baker, of. cit.y p. 39.
Kelly Miller, Race Adjustment, Essays on the Negro in America (1908), p. 92.
I have the impression that Southern radio stations make less use of national net-
works than do Northern radio stations. If this were found to be a fact, an analysis of
the reasons for it would be suggestive.
Scott and Stowe, of. cit., pp. 115 ff., and Alfred Holt Stone, Studies in the
American Race Problem (1908), pp. 242 ff.
“The Bases of Race Prejudice,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science (November, 1928), p, 13.
Quoted from John Temple Graves, “The Southern Negro and the War Crisis,”
The Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn, 1942), pp. 504-505. This article, too, is
an example of the recent tendency toward increased unfriendliness toward the Negro
on the part of Southern liberals.
Chapter 31. Caste and Class
^ . the Negro group has gradually ceased to exhibit the characteristics of a caste
and has assumed rather the character of a racial or national minority.” (Robert E. Park,
“Introduction” to Bertram Wilbur Doyle, The Etiquette of Race Relations in the
South [1937], p. xxii.) See Donald R. Young, American Minority Peofles (1932)
and, by the same author. Research Memorandum on Minority Peofles in the Defression
(J937)-
^ Many Negro social scientists, and some white ones, are reluctant to use the term
“caste” because of its connotations of invariability and accommodation. They point out,
with good reason, that the use of the term “caste” has sometimes blinded social
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