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Subject(s)

• Racism—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Distributor

• OverDrive, Inc [Browse]

Notes

Electronic book.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Nation Books 2016 Available via World Wide Web.

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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ISBN

9781568584645 (electronic bk.)

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