AFTER the eclipse of Europe, the allegiance of men gradually crystallized into two great national or racial sentiments, the American and the Chinese.

I found myself consistently thinking that the Thernstroms were a few degrees away from a sure, comfortable sense of the state of racial sentiments.

Unfortunately, many candidates display dismayingly parochial interests or willingness to play to divisive racial sentiments.

Democratic governments, as in Poland, should make sure there is no place for anti-Semitism and other racial sentiments in free societies.

These polls can help to provide the most descriptive evidence in the changes in racial sentiment in the United States.

She was particularly critical of Charles Edward Trevelyan, the man who ran the British government's relief effort in Ireland, and accused him of having anti-Irish racial sentiments.

Benton says that Thomas "is herself a Semite" and was "expressing a political point of view [in the interview with Nesenoff above], and not a bigoted racial sentiment."

The economic impoverishment of the Malays which set them apart from the better-off Chinese also fanned racial sentiments.

The government later justified these detentions on grounds of security, stating that the detainees had played up the issue of Chinese education to incite racial sentiment.

So argues Linda Williams in this boldly inquisitive book, where she probes the bitterly divisive racial sentiments aroused by such recent events as O. J. Simpson's criminal trial.