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The Black image in the white mind; the debate on Afro-American character and destiny, 1817-1914 George M. Fredrickson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008.
- Series:
- Harper torchbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Prejudices--United States.
- Prejudices.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1972]
- Contents:
- Prejudice and reformism: the colonization idea and the abolitionist response, 1817-1840
- Slavery and race: the Southern dilemma
- Science, polygenesis, and the proslavery argument
- Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: romantic racialism in the North
- White nationalism: "free soil" and the ideal of racial homogeneity
- Race and reconstruction
- New South and the new paternalism, 1877-1890
- Vanishing negro: Darwinism and the conflict of the races
- Negro as beast: Southern negrophobia at the turn of the century
- Accommodationist racism and the progressive mentality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1972
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008. Black image in the white mind.
- ISBN:
- 0061316881
- 9780061316883
- OCLC:
- 416126
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