The Black Image in the White Mind
by Fredrickson, George M.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1987-03-01
Publisher(s): Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary
A study of issues of race in 19th century America.
Author Biography
GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON has been Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University since 1984. He is author of The Inner Civil War, The Black Image in the White Mind (Wesleyan Paperback), and White Supremacy, for which he won the Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Merle Curti awards; this book was also a Pulitzer Prize runner-up. The Black Image in the White Mind received the Anisfield-Wolf Award.
A graduate of Harvard University (A.B. 1956, Ph.D. 1964), Fredrickson served in he U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960 and taught at Northwestern University from 1966 to 1984; he was William Smith Mason Professor after 1979. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo in 1956-57 and a Fulbright professor of American History at Moscow University in 1983. FREDRICKSON has twice been appointed senior fellow of National Endowment for the Humanities; he was a Guggenhim fellow in 1968-69 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His home is in Stanford, California.
A graduate of Harvard University (A.B. 1956, Ph.D. 1964), Fredrickson served in he U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960 and taught at Northwestern University from 1966 to 1984; he was William Smith Mason Professor after 1979. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo in 1956-57 and a Fulbright professor of American History at Moscow University in 1983. FREDRICKSON has twice been appointed senior fellow of National Endowment for the Humanities; he was a Guggenhim fellow in 1968-69 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His home is in Stanford, California.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to Wesleyan Edition | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| Prejudice and Reformism: The Colonization Idea and the Abolitionist Response, 1817-1840 | |
| Slavery and Race: The Southern Dilemma | |
| Science, Polygenesis, and the Proslavery Argument, Chapter Four: Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: Romantic Racialism in the North | |
| White Nationalism: "Fee Soil" and the Ideal of Racial Homogeneity | |
| Race and Reconstruction | |
| The New South and the New Paternalism, 1877-1890 | |
| The Vanishing Negro: Darwinism and the Conflict of the Races | |
| The Negro as Beast: Southern Negrophobia at the Turn of the Century | |
| Accomodationist Racism and the Progressive Mentality | |
| Conclusion and Epilogue | |
| Index | |
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