Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will dole them out through dealers to the appliance-hungry U.S. (estimates of first-year sales run as high as $2 billion for the industry). The rest will go to globe-girdling International G.E. salesmen who hope to get the jump on competitors for the South American and South African trade. For the next year, at least, speed is the watchword...
...AFRICAN JOURNEY - Eslanda Goode Robeson - John...
...Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa (''my 'old country' ") and prove how primitive she was. This book describes her trip...
...little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations," were ''far more politically aware than my fellow Negroes in America." Eslanda "blushed with shame" when she recalled the Harlem-dweller's mental picture of his "African brothers ... in leopard skins, waving spears and eating raw meat...
Eslanda saw everything, from the local jail, which was "clean, pleasant and sanitary," to "lovable pygmies." At last a 120-year-old native, "her eyes glazed with a film of age," insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was trying to become primitive, all the natives she met were hoping to become civilized. They feared that it would take "1,000 years." Eslanda, getting in a bit of a plug for ideology, told them that the Soviet Union had civilized its primitives in a mere ten or 20 years...