Recent Trends in Racial Attitudes of Negro College Students

Abstract

In spite of the well-meaning approach of social organizations, of educators, and of writers to the problem of permanent establishment of world peace, the core of the problem is not being reached. The future of the peace of the world largely turns on the question whether we have, as is sometimes said and often assumed, an instinctive affection for those whose features and color are like our own combined with an instinctive hatred for those who are unlike us.' If such an assumption is true, then it will be impossible, ever, to reach the Utopian ideal of universal human relationships, or even to approximate it until cultural differences are understood and appreciated. Interracial agencies have made much progress in the United States since the World War. Cities, associations, schools, all have their interracial committees. On the whole, however, the Negro is skeptical of these committees; for, too often the members are afraid of jeopardizing their own social and business prestige. How few liberals realize that there may be some of that same hesitancy on the part of other racial groups, too, because of prejudice acquired from unlawful discrimination and general mistrust. A large industrial labor union