Race And Reason: A Yankee View

by Carleton Putnam

Book Overview

Race and Reason: A Yankee View is a book written by Carleton Putnam, first published in 1961. The book is a controversial examination of the issue of race and its impact on American society. Putnam... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125832444X
• ISBN13: 9781258324445
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Amazingly eye-opening, and even more relevant today!

I found this book by accident, and could not put it down! It answers for me everything I wondered about, as to why most blacks are so violent, immoral and lazy. I truly have come to see it is a genetic component, which explains why as soon as whites are removed from the situation, black society descends into moral and financial chaos. I did not grow up holding these views; my parents were rather equalitarian. Even after being victimized by black crime 3 times in my life, I still tried to be openminded. But when my son was brutalized in a big-city high school, so much so that he failed a year due to beatings and intimidation (we since removed him to homeschool him), I began to look at this issue afresh. I truly do not believe the black and white races are meant to mix in any way. When the two do mix, it brings about the death of the white race. READ THIS BOOK!

Right on with Race and Reason

This book is right on I went to school where it was 90 percent black, and learning in those conditions were impossible I grew up in a white working class area and watched the blacks move in, take over and turn it into a murdering drug haven full of prostitution you can not and should not be forced to live or try to be schooled with these types of people.They just want a free ride I have seen it with my own eyes.

Really Eye-opening

This is a great book. The book discusses topics cogently and openly that we cannot find treated in mass-media published works any longer. This is perhaps the most valuable thing about the book--it shows us a look through a telescope at great, important truths which have been supressed by the new inquisition of political correctness. In this, it is a great book. Books which complete and expand your world view beyond what we are "supposed" to think are the only books really worth reading once you get a basic liberal arts education... Buy this book and study it well -- you will see these are topics of immense gravity that our civilization actually revolves around.

Alas, Absalom

I just finished reading this book. As one who graduated from college with a BA in 1968 and who was steeped in the liberalism of that day, but whom time and experience have mutated into a free-thinking person, reading this book was like a time trip into a medieval society. Everything seemed strange and alien, until I realized that it reflected an idea long gone, but nevertheless true and valid. Putnam argued that the inherent inferior intelligence of the black person, as a whole, demanded segregation in social situations, lest the two races intermarry and thereby drag down our society. Fortunately, even today, intermarriage has not happened in great numbers.He argued for school segregation mainly on the grond that it was necessary to prevent intimate contact between the races, but overlooked, or at least only superficially considered, the impact of blacks on the white educational system. The major problem with integration is what it did to educational quality and discipline. Any but a fool could have forseen what did happen. As schools massively integrated, the educational standards were lowered to the extent necessary to allow at least a majority of black students to pass, for to have done otherwise would have resulted in charges of racism, potential violence and dismissal. As to discipline, you only have to ask students who went throutgh a school in which a large segment of the population was black, say 30 or 40 percent. I have a nephew whose education was hampered by the constant unruly and violent behavior of the blacks in his school. Eventually, he dropped out of school as his parents could not keep him in a private school due to costs, but his life was in danger in the public schools. He went on to get his GED (general equivalency diploma), but he was never the same afterwards. Some may argue that Putnam's view is that of the average white racist of his time, but that overlooks the fact that he was essentially correct in his predictions. However, correctly perceiving what is to come is today considered "politically incorrect." Alas Absalom.

A great example of the mentality of the time.

This book is just as racist and bigoted as the other reviewers have made it out to be, yet they miss the value of the book in learning about the mentality behind Segregation. When this book came out in 1961, it was considered a well-written thesis for not only why Segregation was nescasary, but why it was the moral thing to do. It offers that rare insight into the the thinking of the times that has escaped most post-Civil Rights literature. This book is representitive of the thoughts of the majority of the white South in the 60's, and should be recognized as such.