White Racism: Its Root, Form, and Function
JAMES P. COMER M.D.1
1 Associate dean, Yale University Medical School, and assistant professor of psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, Conn. 06510
The author traces the development of white racism in the United States back to the social and religious environment of 16th century Europe and the later Revolutionary era in America. He outlines the functions it has served and its transmission from one generation to the next. Without a significant reduction in white racism now, he concludes, black reaction can only be intensified and form the basis for a more widespread and malignant type of black racism.
