HALF A MAN - The Status of the Negro in New York HALF A MAN - The Status of the Negro in New York

HALF A MAN - The Status of the Negro in New York

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Six years ago I met a young colored man, a college student recently returned from Germany where he had been engaged in graduate work. He was born, he told me, in one of the Gulf States, and I questioned him as to whether he intended going back to the South to teach. His answer was in the negative. "My father has attained success in his native state," he said, "but when I ceased to be a boy, he advised me to live in the North where my manhood would be respected. He himself cannot continually endure the position in which he is placed, and in the summer he comes North to be a man. No," correcting himself, "to be half a man. A Negro is wholly a man only in Europe. Half a man! During the six years that I have been in touch with the problem of the Negro in New York this characterization has grown in significance to me. I have endeavored to know the life of the Negro as I know the life of the white American, and I have learned that while New York at times gives full recognition to his manhood, again, its race prejudice arrests his development as certainly as severe poverty arrests the development of the tenement child. Perhaps a study of this shifting attitude on the part of the dominant race, and of the Negro's reaction under it, may not be unimportant; for the color question cannot be ignored in America, nor should the position taken by her largest city be overlooked.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2020
June 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
118
Pages
PUBLISHER
E-artnow
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
1.1
MB

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