Title: Racist pamphlet
Product review: Carleton Putnam, whose book can still be found in Nazi and racialist sites, defends racial segregation using biological premises. In short, blacks are intrinsecally inferior to whites, incapable of originating or even absorbing a "superior" culture. This book was trounced in 1961 by Garry Wills in National Review (which also favored some degree of segregation at the time, against Supreme Court decisions like Brown v. Board of Education) and, if read today, sounds still more grotesque. Its value, if any, is as an example of a kind of racist literature still current even after World War II, and written by a very articulated man. It can be used as a historical source, but not much more. So, if you are interested in American racialist thought, this can be useful.
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