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history, which could be manned on

a guest basis by scholars like Dr.

E. Franklin Frazier of our coun

try and Dr. E. iPrice Mars of Haiti.

For one thing is certainly evi

dent today, and that is the in

creased interest taken in the prob

lems of race and color in Latin

America by Negroes in the United

States.

This column can modestly take

some of the credit for this height

ened interest in the up and coming

nations south of the Rio Grande.

Except for occasional despatches

from Haiti, the Dominican Repub

lic, and the Panama Canal Zone,

little was published in the Amer

ican 'Negro press about Latin

America until after this column

was started in November, 1943.

Now, every one of the leading

Negro papers, and many of the

smaller ones, carry iLatin Amer

ican coverage often furnished by

reporters on the spot. And that's

an encouraging development.

Time To Build

The ground has been laid for

more intensive and specialized

study of the Negro in Latin Amer

ica in our colleges and secondary

schools. Now it's time to build

something on that ground.

I realize, of course, that we

would have to start from scratch

on such a project. We would need

textbooks and supplementary

reading, but encouraging starts

have already been made in that

direction.

Dr. Fernando Ortiz, eminent

Cuban aubhority on the Negro, has

just issued a two-volume work on

the history and culture of the Ne

gro in Latin America. This work

needs to be translated into Eng

lish under the capable direction of

somebody like Dr. Frazier.

lFor supplementary reading,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Hartford chronicle. (1946). Hartford, Conn., 1946-06-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92051342/1946-06-08/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Hartford chronicle, 1946-06-08.