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Race : the history of an idea in America / Thomas F. Gossett.
LIBRA - Special E184.A1 G6 1965
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gossett, Thomas F., 1916-2005.
- Series:
- Sourcebooks in Negro history
- Sourcebooks in negro history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Minorities--United States.
- Minorities.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 510 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Schocken paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, 1965.
- Contents:
- Early race theories
- England's American colonies and race theories
- Eighteenth-century anthropology
- Nineteenth-century anthropology
- The Teutonic origins theory
- The study of language and literature
- Race and Social Darwinism
- The Social Gospel and race
- Literary naturalism and race
- The Indian in the nineteenth century
- The status of the Negro: 1865-1915
- Anti-immigration agitation: 1865-1915
- Imperialism and Anglo-Saxon
- World War I and racism
- Racism in the 1920's
- The scientific revolt against racism
- The battle against prejudice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-500) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gossett, Thomas F., 1916- Race.
- ISBN:
- 0805201068
- 9780805201062
- OCLC:
- 10373842
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