The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden

Summary of Chapter No: 1

In this chapter Jordan explained the reality of black American identity, to denounce the failure of the implementation of the founding ideals of the American Republic and to propose an overhaul of these ideals that America Democracy becomes a rational and moral. This is to take seriously "the Negro problem", which "is nothing but a concrete test of the founding principles of the great republic (Jordan, 1974, p.4).

According to Long seen by white Americans as inferior, blacks have emerged gradually out of the condition reserved for them to demand equality not ...