CHAP.FOREWORDINTRODUCTIONI. RACE AND NATIONWhat do we mean by Race?—The great divisions of mankind.—The White, Black, and Yellow Groups.—Physical characteristics.—The concept of race.—Race mixture.—Race and Nation.—What is meant by Nation?—National sentiment and the international ideal.—Nazi Germany and the racial phantasy.—Language and Race.—The Myth of the Aryan Race.—The Aryan languages and their distribution.II. THE COLOURED PEOPLESWhat do we mean by "colour"?—Skin pigmentation.—The word "Negro" and its meaning.—What is a Negro ?—Legal definitions.—The Indian problem.—The Brown Race.—Black and white in South Africa.—Peoples of the Far East.—Chinese civilization.—The Ancient Egyptians.—The African Negro and his descendants.—Racial pre-judice and anti-Semitism.—The Cagots.—Racial odour.—The skin and its secretions.—The odour of Negroes and Europeans.—The Ku Klux Klan.—Americans and mob violence.—Relations between white and coloured peoples.—The concept of the savage and the institution of slavery.III. SLAVERYSlavery and property.—Slavery in the ancient world.—Christianity and slave labour.—The African slave trade.—Savages and slaves.—The colour of the Negro and the badge of servitude.IV. ANTI-SEMITISMDislike of the Jews and anti-Semitism.—What is anti-Semitism.—Jewish domination.—Who are "the Jews"?—The Hittites.—The "Jewish nose."—Hatred of the Jews in the early world.—The factor of difference.—Jewish exclusiveness.—Kosher food.—Jewish segregation and occupations.—Jews and the industrial system.—Frustration and its results.—The psychology of the subversive agent.—Theories relating to anti-Semitism.—Judaism and Christianity.—Prejudice and sex.—The Mormons.—Plural marriage.—The breed of Canaan.—Jealousy.—The basis of anti-Mormons and Negroes.—Semitism.V. COLOUR PREJUDICE AND THE COLOUR BARAnti-Semitism and colour prejudice.—Dislike of Negroes.—Negroes in literature and on the screen.—Negro authors.—The word "black": its meaning and influence.—Blackness and dirt.—Colour prejudice in Great Britain, the United States and the Union of South Africa.VI. THE COLOUR BAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICASlavery and the colour question.—Emancipation.—Jefferson and Grégoire.—Early theories, Nott, Gliddon, and Gobineau.—The South.—Sex and the Negro.—The creed of the South.—Segregation.—Jim Crow.—Labour and the Negro.—The F.E.P.C.—Negroes and manpower.—Education and the Negro.—Negro poverty.—Housing.—Negroes and the Constitution.—The Negro in the professions.—The Negro Press.—The Churches and colour.—The Mexican Migrants.—Orientals in the United States.—Hawaii.—Puerto Rico.—Proposed solutions.—Southern Conferences.—Lynching.—Strange Fruit and Lillian Smith.—Outlook for the future.VII. THE COLOUR BAR IN GREAT BRITAINThe Imperial ideal and the colour bar.—Colour prejudice in the Empire.—I Go West—The "s.s.Edinburgh Castle "case.—The colour bar in London.—The cases of Amelia King and L.N.Constantine.—The case of McGuire Roberts.—Coloured seamen in the ports.—The Labour Party and the colour bar.VIII. THE COLOUR BAR IN AFRICAVarious aspects of the colour problem in Africa.—The British, French, Belgian, and Portuguese possessions.—The early settlers.—Christianity and the Brotherhood of Man.—The missionaries.—Official British policy.—The industrialization of Africa and the colour bar.1. THE COLOUR BAR IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICASouth Africa and the colour question.—Early days.—The fatal dilemma.—South African policy—The population of South Africa.—The "Cape Coloured."—South African Government.—Education of the Bantu.—The colour bar and segregation.—Housing and health.—Taxation.—Native Labour.—The Mines.—Trade Unions.—The Poor Whites.—The Indians in Natal.—The "Pegging Act."—General Smuts and the colour problem.—The creed of South Africa.2. THE COLOUR BAR IN BRITISH COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES IN AFRICAAttitude of the Colonial Office.—Law and the colour bar.—West Africa.—Northern Rhodesia.—The Copper Belt.—Trade Unions.—Southern Rhodesia.—Tanganyika.—The Protectorates.—Kenya.—General Smuts and "the root problem."—Lord Hailey and self-government.3. THE COLOUR BAR IN FRENCH, BELGIAN, AND PORTUGUESE AFRICAFrench possessions in Africa.—Colonial Administration.—Native Councils.—The colour bar in Dakar.—French Equatorial Africa.—Félix Eboué.—Belgian colonies.—The Belgian Congo.—Portuguese East Africa.—Cocoa scandals.—Summary of colour prejudice in Africa.—Attitude of the white settlers.IX. THE COLOUR BAR IN THE WEST INDIESClass and colour.—Poverty the basic problem.—Recent disturbances.—Trade Unions in Jamaica and Trinidad.—Colour prejudice in Jamaica and elsewhere.—The colonial official and colour prejudice.—Clubs and the colour bar.—Barbados.—The French West Indies.—Cuba.—Haiti.—Status and colour.—Economic pattern of West Indian life.X. THE COLOUR BAR IN INDIA AND THE EASTColour prejudice in India.—Its relation to status.—Position in the provinces.—The Dutch East Indies.—Caste and colour.—Brahmins and Untouchables.XI. THE COLOUR PROBLEM IN BRAZILThe population of Brazil.—History of Brazilian colonization.—Portugal and Spain.—The concept of "race" in Brazil.—Negroes in Brazil.—"Improving the blood."—Social position of Negroes.—Colour prejudice and the concept of class.—The colour problem in Brazil.—Immigration to Brazil.—Oliveira Vianna and his theories.XII. THE COLOUR BAR IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALANDImmigration to Australia.—White Australia.—Chinese labour.—Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and a White Australia.—The Japanese racial equality clause.—Mr. Hughes and Australian policy.—The Australian aborigines.—Half-castes.—Race prejudice in New Zealand.—Chinese immigrants.—The Maoris.—The treaty of Waitangi.—The Maoris to-day.—Colour prejudice in New Zealand.—The racial problem in the Pacific.XIII. RACE AND NATIONALITY IN THE U.S.S.RRacial prejudice in Russia.—Persecution of the Jews.—The minorities in the U.S.S.R.—Soviet administration.—Legal decrees on racial hostility.—The Soviet Constitution.—A Negro Soviet.—Moslems in the U.S.S.R.—The Tatar A.S.S.R.—Tajikstan.—The Kasakh S.S.R.XIV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RACIAL AND COLOUR PREJUDICEThe meaning of the word "prejudice."—Earlier meanings.—Examples of its use.—Prejudice in the law courts.—Prejudice in science and politics.—The development of prejudice.—Prejudice in children.—Negro stereotypes.—The concept of "the unconscious."—Rationalization.—Measuring emotion.—Lack of colour prejudice in early times.—The age of discovery.—Slavery.—Its effect in the United States.—The Churches and Slavery.—Abolition and its results.—The dilemma in American society.—Race teaching in schools.—Tests for prejudice.—Difference as between nations.—The Southern States and sex.—Sex and fear.—Effect of a Puritan heritage.—Black man and white woman.—Conflict of ideals.—The dilemma in Africa.—Colour prejudice in Brazil.—Reasons for its weakness.—Catholics and Protestants.—The future of colour prejudice.INDEX
