gro man raping white women in considerable numbers as opposed to the more virtuous white man respecting the virtue of Negro girls and women. This point is very doubtful indeed as unsustained charges of the former can be made and accepted so easily, while in the latter case violation has been considered of no importance or merely as a sport. Then too in the higher incidence of illegitimate births among the Negroes, one wonders how many of the children had been fathered by white men who would be ignored in the statistics since one drop of Negro blood would characterize the child as Negro. Furthermore one will never know in either case how far consenting attitudes were called rape to preserve the "honor" of the female participant. A social worker in Los Angeles told me of some evidence on this point which he ran into accidentally that is quite shocking. Much of the discussion at large concerning "miscegenation" or "mongrelization of the races" is ridiculous in the extreme and quite innocent of any relation to reality. Intermarriage is looked upon with horror by many. And yet seventy percent of all Negroes in the United States are part

white and a large group, getting lighter all the time, are said to "pass over" every year. I suppose their color is faded by the sun! After three hundred years the amount of Negro blood in the white people must be incalculable. But we must preserve the myth of "pure race" at any cost. South Americans say over and over, I heard it myself. "North Americans are hypocrites." In the face of the acceptance of Negro mistresses and the unlimited procreation of children, part white and part Negro, in a large part of the country along with the denial with much bitterness of wholesome, legal, and above board relationships, it is difficult to refute the charge of the South Americans. The acceptance of rationality means first the facing of reality.

On the whole the book is enlightening, stimulating, and informative. And yet one wonders just where the line is to be drawn between genuine, scientific enlightenment and the titillation of vicarious sex experience. Perhaps the use of "perverse sex practices" leans slightly toward the latter. (Italics added.)

T. M. M.

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