Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi Contributor(s): Hollandsworth, James G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807133361 ISBN-13: 9780807133361 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2007051856 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 Stone, helped justify a repressive racial order that relegated African Americans to the margins of southern society in the early 1900s. |