The Basis of Ascendancy: A Discussion of Certain Principles of Public Policy Involved in the Development of the Southern States

Hard-to-find First Edition. Scuffing/minor damage to top and bottom of spine binding and scuffing to corners. Play in front cover due to interior cracking at spine (but holding firm/fast). elsewise a very good, clean, tight copy. Former owner's inked name and 1937 date on front endpaper. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine. Gold gilt top edges and uncut side and bottom edges. Contents (11 Chapters): The Invisible Inheritance; The Protest of Our Self-Protection; The Impulse of Race Agression;The Indadequacy of Repression as a Policy of Ultimate Adjustment; The Double Basis of Our Race Security; Negro Race Integrity: The School of Self-Discovery;The Integrating Force of Opportunity: Despair as a Force of Disintergration; The Fate of the Strong; The Educative Power of Social Reactions; The New Coercion; Ascendancy. 250 pages. LG7.