Black and White : land, labor, and politics in the South / T. Thomas Fortune ; introduction by Seth Moglen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Southern States--Economic conditions.

African Americans--Southern States--Politics and government.

Racism--Southern States--History.

Racism.

History.

Politics and government.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Southern States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 219 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Washington Square press trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, 2007.

Summary:

This new edition of T. Thomas Fortune's masterpiece-originally published in 1884-presents a classic work of African-American political thought to a new generation of readers. Like the intellectual giants who emerged before and after him-Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois-T. Thomas Fortune was a writer, activist, and public intellectual. Born into slavery, Fortune became the leading black journalist of his generation, and he was the most eloquent and influential African-American radical of the late nineteenth century.

Black and White offers Fortune's brilliant analysis of racism as a systemic, institutionalized practice that had undermined America's Enlightenment ideals from the time of the nation's founding. Asserting that the abolition of slavery had in no way diminished the virulence of white racism, he insisted that share-cropping, chain gangs, lynching, and the denial of civil rights had forced black Americans into a terrible new form of enslavement. With a prophetic voice, Fortune argued that if the United States was ever to realize its long-betrayed promise of equality, it would need not only to end racial prejudice but also to create a more just economic order.

Contents:

I Black 1

II White 6

III The Negro and the Nation 13

IV The Triumph of the Vanquished 19

V Illiteracy-Its Causes 28

VI Education-Professional or Industrial 38

VII How Not to Do It 56

VIII The Nation Surrenders 64

IX Political Independence of the Negro 69

X Solution of the Political Problem 81

XI Land and Labor 91

XII Civilization Degrades the Masses 99

XIII Conditions of Labor in the South 110

XIV Classes in the South 124

XV The Land Problem 137.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Fords, Howard, & Hubert, 1884.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxix).

ISBN:

9780743291040

0743291042

OCLC:

76829110

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