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Footnotes 1355
to explain some things which have not been understood hitherto. It will explain, in pan,
the universal and furious hostility of the South to even the least suggestion of social
equality.” (Page, of, cit,y pp. 112-113.)
“Even the most liberal Whites in the community claim that the equality for which
the Negroes ask is not possible without the ‘social equality’—the intermingling and inter-
marriage—they so deeply fear. They also hint that the Negroes ‘unconsciously’ do
desire this sort of social equality.” (Hortense Powdermaker, After Freedom [i 939 ]>
p. 350.)
Bailey, of, cit,^ p. 42.
The Basis of Racial Adjustment (1925), pp. 24O-241. Woofter distinguishes
between contacts which arc “helpful” and those which are “harmful.” In the latter
category he places “social intermingling” along with “vice” and “crime,” “violence,
economic exploitation, unfair competition, and demagogic or exploitative political
contacts.” (Ibid,^ p. 215.)
Ibid, pp. 235 flF.
lbid,y p. 239.
Liberalism in the South (1932), p. 254. Dabney continues:
“The argument runs that such laws were desirable twenty or thirty years ago when
the great majority of blacks were unclean in person and slovenly in attire, and when
the ubiquitous saloon and its readily purchased fire water were conducive to clashes
between the lower orders of both races. It is contended that these reasons for separating
the races in public gatherings and on public conveyances do not now obtain to anything
like the same extent, and that the Negroes should no longer be humiliated in this
manner.”
lbid,y p. 255.
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“Here, as elsewhere, however, it has been rather the social inequality of the races,
than any approach to equality, which has been responsible for the mixture, in so far as
such has occurred. It was the social inequality of the plantation days that began the
process of mixture. ... If race-amalgamation is indeed to be viewed as always an evil,
the best way to counteract the growth of that evil must everywhere be the cultivation
of racial self-respect and not of racial degradation.” (Josiah Royce, Race Questionsy
Provincialism and Other American Problems [1908], pp. 21-22.)
See Chapter 27, Section 3. W. F. Cash, in his The Mind of the South (1941),
gives, with much insight and understanding, the story of how in the Old South the sex
relations of white men with Negro women tended to inflate white womanhood (pp. 84
if). The Negro woman, torn from her tribal restraints and taught an easy complaisance,
was to be had for the taking:
“Boys on and about the plantation inevitably learned to use her, and having acquired
the habit, often continued it into manhood and even after marriage. For she was natural,
and could give herself up to passion in a way impossible to wives inhibited by Puritanical
training. And eflforts to build up a taboo against miscegenation made little real progress.”
{Ibid,y p. 84.)
The white women were naturally disturbed by what they could not help knowing
about. The Yankees were not slow to discover the opening in the Southern armor:
“And the only really satisfactory escape here, as in so many other instances, would
be fiction. On the one hand, the convention must be set up that the thing simply did no*t
exist, and enforced under penalty of being shot; and on the other, the woman must be
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