Question

Which of the following sentences from Zora Neale Hurston's "What White Publishers Won't Print" best supports the author's opinion that white Americans perceive educated African Americans as a threat?
a. Man, like all the other animals fears and is repelled by that which he does not understand, and mere difference is apt to connote something malign.
b. National coherence and solidarity is implicit in a thorough understanding of the various groups within a nation, and this lack of knowledge about the internal emotions and behavior of the minorities cannot fail to bar out understanding.
c. The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation.
d. I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
e. Argue all you will or may about injustice, but as long as the majority cannot conceive of a Negro or a Jew feeling and reacting inside just as they do, the majority will keep right on believing that people who do not look like them cannot possibly feel as they do, and conform to the established pattern.

Answer 1

"The fact that there is no demand for incisive and full-dress stories around Negroes above the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance to this nation" is the statement from Zora Neale Hurston's "What White Publishers Won't Print" that best supports the author's opinion that white Americans perceive educated African Americans as a threat. The correct option is option "c".

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. The fact that there is no demand for full dress stories and incisive which is around negroes above, whereby the servant class is indicative of something of vast importance that notion.

Neale Hurston is much confused and surprised by Anglo-saxons. He is not curious about emotions interest.

Educated African American are being perceived as a threat by the white American when author says that all men are like other animals which repels and fears by what he is not understand the difference which is made to decide for a little something.