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- Title
World Affairs and U.S. Race Relations: A Note on Little Rock.
- Authors
Isaacs, Harold R.
- Abstract
The article explores the relation between world affairs and race relations in the U.S. People hear a great deal nowadays about the effect of American race relations on American standing in world affairs. This article sets forth some questions that arose in the first phase of an inquiry into this subject at Little Rock, Arkansas. People know this newly-enlarged intercontinental interest in American race relations exists, for it beats down on them in great waves every time the issue arises in visible form, and nowadays hardly an American traveler anywhere in the world can fail to run into some of it. In vast parts of the world that have suddenly become so important to people, there are people who have had experience of Western white racism, whose whole lives and personalities, indeed, were largely shaped by it. There is a great need to understand this, and there is also a great need not to be simpleminded about it. Little Rock, a town with no previous experience of either notoriety or renown, suddenly found itself in the world's eye.
- Subjects
LITTLE Rock (Ark.); ARKANSAS; UNITED States; RACE relations; RACISM; RACE discrimination; MASS media
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1958, Vol 22, Issue 3, p364
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/266803