| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-561) and index. |
| 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 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Awards |
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016 |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9781568584638 1568584636 (DLC) 2015033671 |
| ISBN |
9781568584645 (electronic bk.) |
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1568584644 (electronic bk.) |
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9781568584638 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1568584636 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| UPC # |
40025968975 |
| OCLC # |
EBC4419844 |
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