Word: niggerness
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Died. Ralph Van Vechten, 65, banker, brother of Carl Van Vechten, famed author (The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven) ; in Chicago...
...They say the Negro is lazy and yet when a white man does happen to work he says, 'I worked like a nigger...
...they were fortunate in being neglected. For, said he, a "really powerful" story would expose "their pseudo culture, their slavish devotion to Nordic standards, their snobbishness, their detachment from the Negro masses and their vast sense of importance to themselves. . . . [Such a book] would be more wrathfully damned than Nigger Heaven? at present vibrating throughout the land in its eleventh edition...
...nigger men" and even more most certainly not the cowered and much outraged white women. . . . Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if in spite of Ku Kluxes and Jim Crow laws, "niggers" are good enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago, he is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. For 25 years he has made a thorough study of the Negro problem. No "nigger-lover," no "nigger-hater," Professor Dowd understands darkest America...