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FOOTNOTES
Introduction
M1939). p- 172-
^William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, The Polish Peasant in Eurofe and
America (1918).
® One such exception is E. Franklin Frazier’s book, The Negro Family in the United
States (1939). As Ernest W. Burgess hints at in his Preface, the importance of this work
is in no small measure dependent upon Frazier’s ability to look at the development of the
Negro family in its relation to the trend of changes in the total environmental setting.
^ The American Commonwealth (1911; first edition, 1893), Vol. .1, p. 7.
® For a popular but comprehensive attempt at a cultural overview of present-day
America, where lights and shadows are distributed in a very different way than in this
study concentrated on a problem sector of American civilization, the author can refer
to Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, Kontakt Med Amerika (1941).
Chapter i. American Ideals and the American Conscience
^ Alien Americans (1936), p. 149.
^
“Conceptions and Ideologies of the Negro Problem,” unpublished manuscript pre-
pared for this study (1940), p. 4.
^“Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln” (1866), pp.
4 and 6.
^ Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (1921), pp. 281-282.
^ Efic of America (1931), p. 405.
^ Main Currents in American Thought^ Vol. 3, “The Beginnings of Critical Realism
in America, 1860-1920” (1930), pp. 285 ff.
^ 1913-
® Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought^ Vol. 3, “The Beginnings of
Critical Realism In America, 1860-1920,” p. 410.
® After a careful survey of American heroes, Dixon Weeter concludes that only
Washington could be placed on the side of conservatism, and even he occasionally went
over to the liberal side and is popularly identified with liberalism. (Dixon Weeter,
The Hero in America [1941], pp. 486-487.)
Vernon L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought^ Vol. i, “The Colonial
Mind, 1620-1800” (1927), p. 179.
Charles E. Merriam, “The Meaning of Democracy,” Journal of Negro Educa^-
(July, 1941), p. 309.
It has become customary in the writing of the early history of American ideas
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