Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
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- ISBN: 9781568584645
- ISBN: 1568584644
- ISBN: 9781568584638
- ISBN: 1568584636
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (viii, 582 pages) - Publisher: New York : Nation Books, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I. Cotton Mather. Human hierarchy -- Origins of racist ideas -- Coming to America -- Saving souls, not bodies -- Black hunts -- Great awakening -- Part II. Thomas Jefferson. Enlightenment -- Black exhibit -- Created equal -- Uplift suasion -- Big bottoms -- Colonization -- Part III. William Lloyd Garrison. Gradual equality -- Imbruted or civilized -- Soul -- The impending crisis -- History's emancipator -- Ready for freedom? -- Reconstructing slavery -- Reconstructing blame -- Part IV. W.E.B. Du Bois. Renewing the south -- Southern horrors -- Black Judases -- Great white hopes -- The Birth of a Nation -- Media suasion -- Old deal -- Freedom brand -- Massive resistance -- Part V. Angela Davis. The act of civil rights -- Black power -- Law and order -- Reagan's drugs -- New Democrats -- New Republicans -- 99.9 percent the same -- The extraordinary Negro -- Epilogue. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016 |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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