{"id":7360,"date":"2016-05-13T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T22:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxwellhalsted.publish.uic.edu\/?page_id=7360"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:17:14","slug":"race-hatred-race-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/home\/race-colonies\/race-hatred-race-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"RACE HATRED, RACE PSYCHOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Which popular metaphor best captured the hodgepodge of nationalities, ethnic groups, races, and religions spilling into U.S. cities and Chicago’s West Side?<\/p>\n

As one local nativist in Chicago declared in disapproval about the West Side slum, \u201cSome thirty languages … are spoken … where scarcely more than a generation ago the customs, speech, and traditions of New England were so firmly planted that they seemed ineradicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMELTING POT\u201d<\/strong><\/span> popularized by Israel Zangwill\u2019s successful play and praised by idealistic Settlement House advocates like Jane Addams, in which the quaint and foreign dross melted away and the resulting amalgamation was poured into a new cast of racial assimilation and authentic \u201cAmericanization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCRUCIBLE\u201d<\/strong> <\/span>in which all intermural rivalry, hatred and contempt melted away and fused together in the intense heat of nationalism. Theodore Roosevelt spoke favorably of \u201cone flag, one language for citizens and creed here … all other traitors\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMIXING BOWL\u201d<\/strong><\/span> of all nations and stations in which the \u201craw materials\u201d exposed to chemical reactions improved upon contact. A reporter described the two-thirds of a million commuters pouring into Chicago\u2019s Loop every morning as a \u201cmixing bowl for 647,000 workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMONGRELIZATION” \u00a0<\/strong>O<\/span>f the White Anglo-Saxon Race\u201d–the inferior biological product of population mixing. Promiscuous exposure of superior races to inferior ones resulted in human “trash.” With population mixing stronger and more intelligent (white) races inexorably reproduced physically weaker and degenerate mongrel races, swarthy in appearance speaking hundreds of decadent tongues.<\/p>\n

Chicago “queen and guttersnipe of cities, cynosure and cesspool of the world!\u201d \u00a0Chicago a most American and most mongrel of cities. The West Side a most bastard place. \u201cAll these miles of unkempt slum and wilderness betray a disregard for human life which is more than half barbarous.\u201d \u00a0 bjb<\/p>\n

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