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from: Norman Podhoretz

"Crow-Jimism"

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 12:56 PM ET

In the 1950s, the poet Kenneth Rexroth coined the term "Crow-Jimism." He was referring to the belief among many white liberals that Negroes, as they were then called, could do no wrong and were in many ways superior to whites. Rexroth recognized that "Crow-Jimism" was an inverse form of racism, which didn't prevent it from spreading.

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from: Norman Podhoretz

"Crow-Jimism"

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 12:56 PM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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