Race and Reason: A Yankee View

The ideology of racial desegregation examined. OCR-only. This version updated (cover added, bookmarks rendered in mixed case) from the pdf at https://archive.org/details/raceandreason1961 [From the Foreword:] "This book is a signal contribution to an understanding of the race controversy. No other writer, in my opinion, has yet combined so forceful an analysis of the viewpoints of both North and South with so clear a grasp of the reasons behind each. Carleton Putnam strikes at the root of the matter. He thoroughly explores the ideology which led to the Supreme Court’s decision in the desegregation cases and traces it to its source. In the process he puts race against the background of fundamental American ideals with arresting results. He presents documented facts, and discloses a situation, which I believe should be brought to the immediate attention of the American people. *Race and Reason* may well become a text for the unorganized majority in their battle against the social concepts of our minority groups. . . . "