The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality

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Wesleyan University Press, 1988 - 310 páginas

An investigation of the issue of race over a generation of labor

Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Award (1990)

The Arrogance of Race is a significant contribution to the historiography of slavery and racism in America. George Fredrickson, one of the most respected and cogent historians of this complex and troubling subject, maintains that racism is a cultural phenomenon not a mere by-product of class conflict and colonialism. He opts for a "dualistic" rather than a more popular monolithic explanation of the tragedy of racism.

 

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Contenido

Part
5
The Role of Race in
15
Racial Equality
54
Albion W Tourgée and Reconstruction
94
Part
107
The Genoveses
125
Aristocracy and Democracy in the Southern
134
The Historiography of Postemancipation Southern
154
Social Origins of American Racism
189
White Images of Black Slaves in the Old South
206
The United States
216
The American
236
Political Foundations
254
Notes
271
Index
295
Acknowledgments 311

Some Recent Views of
161
Part Three
183
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Términos y frases comunes

abolition abolitionism abolitionist African Afrikaner Afro-American agrarian American South antebellum antislavery apartheid argued argument aristocratic attitudes basic Black Image British Cape capitalist career Chapter Civil Clay colonies color conflict consciousness cultural debate democratic deny differences dominant Douglass economic efforts egalitarian emancipation essays ethnic Eugene Genovese Fool's Errand force Frederick Douglass Fredrickson free blacks freedmen Garrison Genovese Gutman Helper Hinton Rowan Helper historians Ibid ideology Impending Crisis inferior interpretation Jamaica Jim Crow land liberal Lincoln majority masters ment Merchant Capital modern movement nation Negro nonslaveholding nonwhite North northern Old South Origins paternalistic pattern plantation planters policies political population prejudice proslavery race relations racism radical Reconstruction reform Republican resistance Sambo segregation sense servitude settlers slaveholders slavery slaves social South Africa South Carolina southern history southern whites status stereotype suffrage supremacist tion Tourgée Tourgée's tradition Vann Woodward white supremacy Williamson York

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Acerca del autor (1988)

Historian George M. Fredrickson was born in Bristol, Connecticut on July 16, 1934. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1956 and then studied in Norway on a Fulbright scholarship. After serving in the Navy for three years, he earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1964. He taught at numerous universities including Harvard University, Northwestern University and Stanford University. He retired from teaching in 2002. During his career, he wrote eight books and edited four more. His book White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Some of his other works include The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crises of the Union, Racism: A Short History and Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race. He died from heart failure on February 25, 2008.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloThe Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality
AutorGeorge M. Fredrickson
Ediciónrevisada
EditorWesleyan University Press, 1988
ISBN0819562173, 9780819562173
Largo310 páginas
  
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