A hideous monster of the mind : American race theory in the early republic /

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"A Hideous Monster of the Mind reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism, and latter-day Afrocentrism." &q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dain, Bruce R., 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Race > History.
Race > Philosophy.
Racism > United States > History.
Racism in anthropology > United States > History.
Race discrimination > United States > History.
Eugenics > United States > History.
African Americans > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.
Race > Histoire.
Race > Philosophie.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Racisme en anthropologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination raciale > États-Unis > Histoire.
Eugénisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Opinion publique.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans > Public opinion
Eugenics
Moral conditions
Public opinion
Race
Race discrimination
Race > Philosophy
Race relations
Racism
Racism in anthropology
United States > Race relations.
United States > Moral conditions.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Conditions morales.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The face of nature
  • Culture and the persistence of race
  • The horrors of St. Domingue
  • The mutability of human affairs
  • Conceiving universal equality
  • Black immediatism
  • The new ethnology
  • Effacing the individual.

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