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...Negro Revolution and civil rights in general have been so exhaustively discussed and analyzed during the past year that many people will greet yet another book on the Negro with little interest. But Thomas Pettigrew's short work is quite different from most of the recent civil-rights literature...
...profile" of the Negro American is primarily a sociological and psychological one, with little historical or narrative material. The book is, in fact, sandwich-like in its content, consisting of two slices of Pettigrew's social-psychological analysis of the Negro and his environment, wrapped around a completely separate discussion of racial differences...
...book's middle section, Pettigrew has included in one coherent and scholarly survey all the studies of the past two decades on the existence of racial differences. Presented as a refutation to the "scientific racists" who have recently tried to revive many of the old fears and tales of the Negro's genetic inferiority, this compilation was long overdue, and Pettigrew does an excellent job of organizing the mass of material which has accumulated. Many of the studies, however, have similar findings, and Pettigrew's detailed documentation soon becomes somewhat tiresome...
...Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland, Pettigrew points out, the news media emphasized the percentage of the Wallace vote without studying the size of the total vote. Actually, the votes in the primaries were considerably larger than is normal in Democratic primaries in those states. The "blacklash" then, was apparently caused by people voting who do not normally go to the polls. To call this vote a major shifting of opinion, Pettigrew said, is a "blatant fallacy...
...polls conducted by Lou Harris showed a growing majority in favor of the Civil Rights Act then under consideration. While an estimated 63 per cent of Americans favored the bill in November, 1963, 65 per cent favored it in February and 70 per cent were for it by May, Pettigrew said...