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An article which is styled 'Reflections' by the author and is of a heuristic nature might presumably be exempted from the canons of clear thinking and dismissed with passing notice as one man's impressions of a highly complex sociopsyhcological problem. Unfortunately, however, this article is one of a series put forth as part of the important subject matter entitled Psychogenetic Studies in Race Psychology, and it presumes (in the space of six pages) to deal with the following major problems related to miscegenation: 1. The White Man's Concept of the Negro; 2. The Negro's Concept of the White Man; 3. Conditions of Intermarriage; and 4. The Reaction of the Races to Mixed Marriages.
To say that the author deals with these subjects in cavalier fashion is to understate the incredibly sweeping and inexact nature of his many generalizations. Thus, apropos of the white man's concept of the negro, we are told that 'like Freud' the author believes 'that the erecting urge dominates life'. From this beginning we are led through half a page of similes and metaphors (discussed as 'symbols', but not conforming to psychoanalytic definition of that term) to the conclusion that 'negro equals sexual lust, looseness, and virility—in the white man's symbolism'. The negro's concept of the white man is dealt with in a page which tells us, inter alia, that 'the negro has a feeling of sexual superiority' … because 'his sex urge and prowess have been so widely advertised by his puritanical white superiors', that a 'visitor from … Mars … would say at once: "The whole world craves the white American woman"'; that 'in the case of the American negro … this is true, although many will not admit it …'; and that 'the male negro … has attained his ideal in marrying a white woman'.
The two concluding sections of the article are, like the first two, full of presumably empirically derived, but actually very loose and prejudiced statements; and this weighty problem with its immense psychological a