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Portrait of a Scientific Racist : Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi /

In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them-an issue they termed the ""negro problem."" In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrecte...

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Autor principal: Hollandsworth, James G., Jr., 1944-2010
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario:In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them-an issue they termed the ""negro problem."" In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrected old proslavery arguments and sought new justification in scientific theories purporting to ""prove"" people of African descent inherently inferior to whites. In Portrait of a Scientific Racist James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals how the conjectures of one of the country's most prominent racial theorists, Alfred Holt
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807134832