I wasn't alive then, but I'd be surprised if that racism hadn't been in the context of pre-existing racism, from well before 1937. My distant recollection of 1

I wasn't alive then, but I'd be surprised if that racism hadn't been in the context of pre-existing racism, from well before 1937. My distant recollection of 1920-1930s "pulp era" science fiction and comic books is that even by the (for today) relatively lenient standards of the 1960s-1970s, non-white characters tended to obviously racist tropes. My father once told me about two classmates of his, who had promptly been christened "Chinee 1" and "Chinee 2" by the PE coach and remained thus thereafter ... despite the fact that their families had originally come from korea. The DoD (as it is now) didn't end segregation in the military until after WWII, with the 1948 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981 ; in so doing they were of course well in advance* of the remainder of their society. For context, a comic cover (of a sympathetically portrayed character!) from 1947, one year before: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/The_Spirit_10.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/The_Spirit_10... * consider a judge in 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Almighty%20God%20created,races%20to%20mix%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_Unit... EDIT: damn, that wasn't just said in an interview, the judge wrote that down in his legal opinion: https://discoveryvirginia.org/opinion-judge-leon-m-bazile-january-22-1965-page-1 https://discoveryvirginia.org/opinion-judge-leon-m-bazile-ja...