| The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 Contributor(s): Bay, Mia (Author) |
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ISBN: 019510045X ISBN-13: 9780195100457 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $193.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As gods, monsters, or another race entirely? Did nineteenth-century black Americans ever come to regard white Americans as innately superior? If not, why not? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves, but the ways in which blacks saw whites have remained a historical and intellectual mystery. Reversing the focus of such fundamental studies as George Fredrickson's The Black Image in the White Mind, Bay investigates this mystery. In doing so, she elucidates a wide range of thinking about whites by blacks, intellectual and unlettered, male and female, and free and enslaved. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 98-48935 |
| Lexile Measure: 1610 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.3" W x 9.26" (1.41 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Civil War - Topical - Black History |
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| Publisher Description: How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves. By contrast, the ways in which blacks saw whites have remained a historical and intellectual mystery. Reversing the focus of such fundamental studies as George Fredrickson's The Black Image in the White Mind, Bay investigates this mystery. In doing so, she uncovers and elucidates the racial thought of a wide range of nineteenth-century African-Americans--educated and unlettered, male and female, free and enslaved. |