The Negro Personality A Rigorous Investigation of the Effects of Culture

Graphs; This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and creasing. There is a small chip to the spine end of the book cover. The book covers have small spots of discoloraton and also some fading to the spine and spine joints. There is a light coffee circle to the front cover by the title. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "What we learn from Dr. Karon’s study more completely than ever before, is how the internal lives of those on the "wrong" side of the caste line are structured: their readinesses and resistances; where they will play touch and go with their environments and where they will relate themselves meaningfully; what they dare and what they fear. The villain of the piece, for Dr. Karon, is the caste system—not age, nor education, nor industrialization, nor rural-urban residence, nor population density, nor any single factor which by itself might help to explain differences in social behavior. Dr. Karon shows the limited relevance of such typical variables." (from Commentary Magazine June 1960) ; Signed by Author.…