Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHERE I WAS BORN AND RAISED (380 pp.)-David L. Cohn-Houghton Mifflin...
Experimental Ownership. The same profound suspicion, he says, accounts for many odd quirks of Negro behavior. Negro tenants who pick up and leave their farrners sometimes do so, Cohn says, for a purely experimental purpose: to find out if they will really be allowed to keep mules or farm implements which they have bought from the landlord...
...iron law of the white society still decrees that sexual relations between a white woman and a Negro are punishable with death "for both parties, or, at least, banishment of the woman from the community." The rigidity and violence of such a tradition, Cohn thinks, is a logical consequence of segregation, and segregation a logical consequence of the whites' refusal to tolerate intermarriage. He says flatly that there is no solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads...
Lick Skillet Dialogue. Cohn believes that most Southerners only faintly glimpse the inner lives of the Negroes by whom they are surrounded-Negroes who live apart in sections with such names as "Lick Skillet," "Spot Without a Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example...
During the war, Professor Cohn separated blood plasma fractions, an achievement of great value in treating wartime combat shock, measles, and liver inflammation, the scientists declared...