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Introduction lix
clean in the national household: we shall see plenty of law-breaking, crime
and corruption, poverty and distress, heartlessness and ignorance. We shall
continuously be dealing with the frictions, worries and shortcomings of
America.
Studying the Negro problem gives a ^^frog-perspective” of the cultural
situation, not a bird^s eye view. Although the frog-perspective does reveal
some of the real virtues of a society, as we shall find, it focuses more com-
pletely on its faults. For a general purpose, it is not a true perspective.®
I am eager to have the warning expressly stated in the introduction to this
book, that an’^one who uncritically utilizes the viewpoints and findings of
this inquiry on the American Negro problem for wider conclusions con-
cerning the United States and its civilization than are warranted by its
direction of interest is misusing them.
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