Second trade paperback edition; Revised and updated.
Description
xv, 707 pages ; 23 cm
Details
Note
"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Nation Books in 2016"--Title page verso.
"Reading group guide inside"--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-677) and index.
Contents
Preface to the 2023 edition -- Preface to the first paperback edition -- Prologue -- 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 ; Exhibits ; 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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