...Robert F. Durden The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy . By Berwanger Eugene H. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1967 . Pp. viii , 176 . $5.95 . Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso...

...Andrew Poe What is the structure of prejudice? In his 1951 essay, “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda,” Theodor Adorno reflects on the mass psychological basis of fascism. Within that psychology, he identifies a logic of ego “enlargement,” which relates directly to the structure...

... aggressive, less thesis-driven, less angst-ridden style of critique that would seek to repair the damage of homophobia and other forms of prejudice and violence rather than simply revealing allegedly new and ever more insidious forms of abuse in rather unlikely places. One instance where she might prove...

... British politician Tony Benn. It argues that the strategic and analytical prejudices and shortcomings of this tradition ultimately proved fatal to Corbynism’s electoral prospects. jeremygilbert@mac.com Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party Tony Benn...

...Jenn M. Jackson In August 2020, prominent race scholar and thinker on anti-racism Ibram X. Kendi wrote an article in the Atlantic titled, “Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?” The subtitle read: “Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently...

... immediately so, and that its metric is cognizable in a critical understanding of the received idea of “real time.” Following an introduction titled “Undercount Nation,” the essay proceeds in six sections: (I) Studies in Prejudice, Primordial Restitution, Interpretation neither Stringent nor Arbitrary; (2...

... of Heidelberg, Germany. He writes me that he has to sit in judgment on Germans, Russians, Frenchmen, Poles. He says the racial differences are startling, and that it is wisest to deal with them differently. In our day and land we hear constantly of racial prejudice. I wonder if most of it is really prejudice...

... that they be discriminated against in any respect. Louis ordered that all his parlements record this law and observe it; he had it proclaimed by town criers and affixed in public places, as in the 46 The South Atlantic Quarterly case of other laws. But long-standing social prejudices are not in­ stantly removed by passing...

... is the basic sense of the world felt by the South, which is valuable and indeed necessary in world councils. Immediately I hear objections. Can any good come out of Nazareth? Can a region noted for race prejudice and a lack of democracy contribute anything of merit beyond sheer fighting spunk in a war...

... of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were writ­ ten in the form of letters. Telling a story in that manner unduly restricts the author, encumbers the action with an artificial weight, and slows the pace, but it has one great advantage in the days of apprenticeship: it forces the author to stay...

... passion or prejudice, but rather with the freedom and cosmopolitanism that should characterize the cultivated man. It is frequently a complaint among the best men of the South that other sections of the country misjudge us by taking the opinions of certain public men and newspaper editors as typical...

... briefly shed light upon was just as quickly covered up. Most Americans would congratulate themselves for the successful resolution of the case because they felt that Scottsboro signaled the beginning of the end of blind prejudice in America. The days of southern, therefore American, racism were numbered...

...-Indian children were inferior in moral and intellectual faculties was Dr. Andrew Bell of Madras (who exerted considerable influence in English schooling). He correctly attributed the unde­ sirable characteristics of the Anglo-Indian boys in his school at Egmore to the crippling prejudices which prevailed...

... of race prejudice in the southern mind and heart. The stricture is severe, and even if it were true, there is the probability of a plurality of causes for the alleged phenomenon, and not merely the one cause given by Professor Howard. In assigning only the one cause, he betrays in himself the very...

.... In seeking to destroy error and establish the truth, the history teacher is confronted with strong and most persistent obstacles (which are generally not sufficiently taken into ac­ count in judging the results of his efforts) in the prejudices and unwarranted preconceptions which most students bring...

... from participating in the ownership of the railways. If national bank stock were so much in the dark as railroad stock it would not be bought and held by the people either, and the banks would be suffering from the same prejudice as now besets the railroads. INCONSIDERATION AND DISCOURTESY...

..., it was usually because he was prepossessed with prejudices either for or against slavery which were likely to cause him to set down only those things which tended to substantiate his opinions. These productions, therefore, have to be studied with special reference to the personal views of the writers, who were...

... as superior to others. The first trace of prejudice against foreigners is recorded by the his­ torian Livy for the year 425 B. C., when foreign religious rites began to disturb the leading citizens, so that the aediles were instructed to see to it that only Roman gods were worshiped in the city and only...

..., owing to the presence of ten million negroes, the South is wrestling with a sociological problem of the most perplexing kind, to the alleviation of which the college is bringing the light of science and the charity of reason devoid of prejudice. Seventhly, owing to class distinctions in its former...

... a wicked reviewer remained admirably restrained. He deserved to find others to speak for him, as he did, both in his own day and later. Yet some of the details of his story may have to be employed in the pursuit of a pattern involving the grafting of prejudice upon prejudice, as well as caricature...