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Has America a Race Problem; If So, How Can It Best Be Solved?
Cooper turns the dreaded 'race problem' inside out: the friction of unlike elements is the engine of progress, dead-level sameness the passivity of death — so America should not mourn that it has a race problem but ensure the contest stays free and fair, with no caste barred from the field.
Conflict as the law of progressEquilibrium, not exterminationAmerica's plural destinyFree and fair competition of races