The Menace of Colour: a Study of the Difficulties due to the Association of White and Coloured Races, with an Account of Measures proposed for their Solution, and Special Reference to White Colonisation in the Tropics

Abstract

HAPPILY there is as yet no sense of the colour line in Great Britain in the sinister interpretation of the term, except perhaps among a restricted few. We may have prevented by law a few coloured musicians from entering Britain; but that is trade unionism directed against foreigners in general; and only recently a coloured actor has received an ovation in the press, all the more hearty because of, and not despite, the fact that he was a member of a race which has not normally been admitted to an opportunity to excel in this field. Yet if any are in doubt of the fact that the relations of races, at different stages of culture, who live side by side in the same community constitute one of the grave problems of the future, Prof. Gregory's book may be commended to them as an antidote for short-sighted optimism.

The Menace of Colour: a Study of the Difficulties due to the Association of White and Coloured Races, with an Account of Measures proposed for their Solution, and Special Reference to White Colonisation in the Tropics.

By Prof. J. W. Gregory. Pp. 264 + 4 plates. (London: Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd., 1925.) 12s. 6d. net.