The white man's burden : historical origins of racism in the United States

Author(s)

• Jordan, Winthrop D.

Bibliographic Information

The white man's burden : historical origins of racism in the United States

Winthrop D. Jordan

（Oxford paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1974

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?

Table of Contents

Part I: Genesis 1550-1700 1. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans 2. Unthinking Decision: Enslavement of Africans in America to 1700 Part II. Provincial Decades 1700-1755 3. Anxious Oppressors: Freedom and Control in Slave Society 4. Fruits of Passion: The Dynamics of Interracial Sex 5. The Souls of Men: The Negro's Spiritual Nature 6. The Bodies of Men: The Negor's Physical Nature Part III. The Revolutionary Era, 1755-1783 7. Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era Part. IV Society and Thought, 1783-1812 8. The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity 9. The Limitations of Antislavery 10. The Cancer of Revolution 11. The Resulting Pattern of Separation Part V. Thought and Society 1783-1812 12. Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society 13. The Chain of Being and the Stamp of Color 14. Toward a White Man's Country Epilogue Exodus

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Details

• NCID: BA12285863
• ISBN:
  • 0195017439
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 229 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00075182