 | Rufus Kinsley, David C. Rankin - 2004 - 316 páginas
...either completely ignored blacks or dismissed them as "a mass of barbarous freedmen" who belonged to "a race of men which has never of itself succeeded...therefore, created any civilization of any kind." The quotations are from William A. Dunning, Reconstruction, Political and Economic, i86^-i8-jj (New... | |
 | Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor - 2005 - 468 páginas
...climate that had seen Reconstruction as a failure and accepted black inferiority. Burgess wrote that, "A black skin means membership in a race of men which...itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason" (Novick 75). Dunning would write that blacks "had no pride of race and aspiration or ideals save to... | |
 | Stanley Turkel - 2005 - 196 páginas
...that blacks are innately inferior. The historian John W. Burgess expressed the essential prejudice: "A black skin means membership in a race of men which has never succeeded in subjecting passion to reason." Until recent years, the history of Reconstruction was written... | |
 | Alexandra Mohr - 2007 - 101 páginas
...provided an academic investigation that was mainly based on the idea of "negro incapacity": Blacks [...] were 'children' utterly incapable of appreciating...never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind' ,54 Therefore, it is not a surprise that The Clansman was not only a big success, but that it also... | |
 | Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, John A. Marini - 2007 - 184 páginas
...is nothing in the color of the skin from the point of view of political ethics is a great sophism. A black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded to reason, has never, therefore created any civilization of any kind."37 By the end of the nineteenth... | |
 | Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds - 2008 - 345 páginas
...have ever been called upon to behold'. Congress did 'a monstrous thing' in enfranchising freed blacks: 'A black skin means membership in a race of men which...passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilisation of any kind'. Burgess applauded the Republicans' imperial turn in the 1890s, for they... | |
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The claim that there is nothing in the color of the skin from the point of view of political ethics is a great sophism. A black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore,... 
