“Racial Studies”

Abstract

I PREFER not to answer ideological attacks on my writings, such as Cedric Dover's review¹ of my pamphlet, “The Roots of Prejudice”¹, published by Unesco; but since Unesco is attacked as well as myself, I think I should reply. Unesco is not an “advertising agency for dubious scholarship”—as Mr. Dover calls it—but an international organization for the promotion of mutual understanding and respect among men, and it chooses to use pamphlets like mine as one means to its goal. My pamphlet was not an expression of my own point of view, but a summary (unfortunately brief and popularized) of all the present-day theories advanced to explain prejudice, including the one favoured by Mr. Dover–the economic exploitation theory. I stressed the fact that, despite the excellent researches that had been carried on, we have not yet reached a scientifically conclusive answer to the causes of prejudice.