 Writing for "The New York Times" during the month of the book's publication, Tillman Durdin suggested that "Mr. Wright...overplays the color angle and attributes to Asians and Africans uniformity of attitude on color that does not exist.He does not sufficiently bring out that Western manifestations of racial superiority in Asia and, to a lesser degree, even in Africa are largely a by-product of past Western political domination over the two continents.