Overview

Preface

IN THEIR PLACE is a historical perspective on white racism that examines the roots of current racial views in American. However, this book of documents is neither a definition nor a summary of contemporary racism American society, and it is not designed to serve the ethnic needs of America’s various minority groups. Instead, it attempts to document the pervasiveness of white racism in the United States from the post-Civil War era to the passage of the historic Civil Rights act of 1964. Therefore, this anthology is directed to white America, because until whites understand why this country puts its minorities “in their place,” there will be no escape from that “place” by those still outside society’s mainstream.

From the Preface of the first edition
By Lewis H. Carlson and George A. Colburn
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 1972

A Summary of the Contents

I NATIVE AMERICANS

1. The Government and the “Indian”
2. Popular Images of the Indian
3. Scientists and the Indian
4. The Indian in American History
5. The indian in Literature

II AFRICAN-AMERICANS

1. In Their Place
2. The “Negro Problem”
3. Scientists and the Negro race
4. Historians Examine the issue

III MEXICAN-AMERICANS

1. The Mexican in American Literature
2. Popular images of the Chicano
3. Science confronts racial differences
4. Congress and the Mexican immigration issue

IV CHINESE- AMERICANS

1. Popular Images of “The Heathen Chinee”
2. The Chinese Exclusion debate
3. The Chinese and American Law
4. The Lingering Stereotype

V JAPANESE-AMERICANS

1. Popular images of the Japanese
2. The dangers of integration
3. The Japanese and American Law
4. Relocation Camps

VI JEWISH-AMERICANS

1. Popular images of the Jew
2. The Jews and the Scientists
3. The Jew as a literary symbol
4. Social, economic and educational racism
5. The Jewish Refugee Problem

VII THE ANGLO-SAXON AND THE NEW IMMIGRANT

1. Poular Images
2. The Anglo-Saxon in literature
3. Scholars analyze the Anglo-Saxon’s Enemies
4. Closing the door