The Negro Studies Himself

A recent small-scale inquiry has served to light up so vividly certain contrasts between what is taking place in white and Negro colleges of the South that it seems worth recording despite the small body of data involved. We are all familiar with the fact that white people study white peoples and their cultures from babyhood on up through school, college, and graduate school, as far as they may go. Greece, Rome, Western Europe, England, the United States, and Modem Europe,-their literature, art, religion, politics, economics, their health, population trends, moral habits, and folkways, these form the core and the periphery of our education, both formal and informal. Here and there a progressive school or college reaches out and includes a subsection of a history course touching on the ancient civilizations of the Orient in a few pages of a school text or an elective course for a few advanced history majors in a university; but broadly speaking white folks study themselves. In a brief survey of Southern white colleges a year ago,' the writer sought to ascertain to what extent colleges located in an area, the population of which is nearly one-fourth Negro, departed from this rule and studied also

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