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Book

Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America

Call Number

  • 305.8 K335 (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Nation Books, [2016]

Physical Description

582 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

  • 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.

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