Overview

How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves. By contrast, the ways in which blacks saw whites have remained a historical and intellectual mystery. Reversing the focus of such fundamental studies as George Fredrickson's The Black Image in the White Mind, Bay investigates this mystery. In doing so, she uncovers and elucidates the racial thought of a wide range of nineteenth-century African-Americans--educated and unlettered, male and female, free and enslaved.

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Author:   Mia Bay (Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Assistant Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for Historial Analysis, Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780195132793

ISBN 10:   0195132793
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 March 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: 1. Desegregating American Racial Thought 2. Overview Part I: White People in Black Ethnology Chapter 1: ""Of One Blood God Created All The Nations Of Men"": African-Americans Respond to the Rise of Ideological Racism, 1789-1830 Chapter 2: The Redeemer Race and the Angry Saxon: Race, Gender, and White People in Antebellum Black Ethnology Chapter 3: ""What Shall We Do With The White People?"": Whites in Postbellum Black Thought Part II: The Racial Thought of the Slaves Introduction to Part II Chapter 4: ""Us Is Human Flesh"": The Racial Thought of the Slaves Chapter 5: ""Devils and Good People Walking De Road At De Same Time"": White People in Black Folk Thought Part III: New Negroes, New Whites: Black Racial Thought in the Twentieth Century Chapter 6: ""A New Negro For A New Country"": Black Racial Ideology, 1900-1925 Conclusion Notes Index"

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This is a meticulous and thought-provoking study of a hitherto neglected topic. It will deservedly take its place alongside the best recent scholarship on the enduring problem of race in American history American Nineteenth Century History An important and timely investigation of African American conceptions of race from the Revolutionary era to the 1920s ... Its scope is also considerably broader than just a consideration of African American ideas about whites, the author having much to say about white racism, self-conceptions of black identity, and race relations in general American Nineteenth Century History

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Mia Bay is Assistant Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University.

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