Word: laxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Dabbs riddles the stock arguments of the segregationists. Is it "instinctive" for whites and Negroes to keep apart? Then why, asks Dabbs, are "Jim Crow" laws necessary at all? Are Negroes sexually laxer than whites? Asks Dabbs: "What classes of Negroes, what classes of whites? . . . There are grounds for believing that the Negroes of the upper middle class are even more middle-class than the whites, more insistent upon American standards." Is the Negro "inferior" by nature? Argues Dabbs: "The present scientific view is that no significant differences have been established . . . The inferior position of the Negro...
Older American schools in Rome, Athous, Bagdad, Jerusalem, and North Africa, founded by the Archeological Institute of America, will aid the work of the center. The Oriental Institute of Chicago will make Laxer House, which contains one of the finest libraries is Egypt, available to the new venture...