HALF A MAN - The Status of the Negro in New York
By Mary White Ovington
Length4h 48m
About this audiobook
Six years ago I met a young colored man, a college student recently returned from Germany where he had been engaged in graduate work. He was born, he told me, in one of the Gulf States, and I questioned him as to whether he intended going back to the South to teach. His answer was in the negative. "My father has attained success in his native state," he said, "but when I ceased to be a boy, he advised me to live in the North where my manhood would be respected. He himself cannot continually endure the position in which he is placed, and in the summer he comes North to be a man. No," correcting himself, "to be half a man. A Negro is wholly a man only in Europe. Half a man! During the six years that I have been in touch with the problem of the Negro in New York this characterization has grown in significance to me. I have endeavored to know the life of the Negro as I know the life of the white American, and I have learned that while New York at times gives full recognition to his manhood, again, its race prejudice arrests his development as certainly as severe poverty arrests the development of the tenement child. Perhaps a study of this shifting attitude on the part of the dominant race, and of the Negro's reaction under it, may not be unimportant; for the color question cannot be ignored in America, nor should the position taken by her largest city be overlooked.
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GenrePsychology
Length4 hrs 48 mins
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Publish dateJun 12, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1FOREWORD
7CHAPTER V EARNING A LIVING—BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS
2INTRODUCTION
8CHAPTER VI THE COLORED WOMAN AS A BREAD WINNER
3CHAPTER I "UP FROM SLAVERY"
9CHAPTER VII RICH AND POOR
4CHAPTER II WHERE THE NEGRO LIVES
10CHAPTER VIII THE NEGRO AND THE MUNICIPALITY
5CHAPTER III THE CHILD OF THE TENEMENT
11CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION
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6CHAPTER IV EARNING A LIVING—MANUAL LABOR AND THE TRADES
12APPENDIX
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