In 1930, Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote an article titled, Your Negroid and Indian Behavior, in which he analyzed how minorities had influenced the White American psyche. Upon his first trip to the USA in 1909, Jung mistook the White workers leaving Buffalo factories for mixed-race men contaminated with Amerindian blood. “But don’t you see their faces? They are more Indian than European.”
“I was once the guest of a stiff and solemn New England family whose respectability was almost terrifying … but there were Negro servants waiting on the table, and they made me feel as though I were eating lunch in a circus. … I found myself cautiously scrutinizing the dishes, looking for imprints of those black fingers.
