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The white image in the black mind : African-American ideas about white people, 1830-1925

Mia Bay
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.
Print Book, English, 2000
Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2000
History
VIII, 288 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780195100457, 9780195132793, 019510045X, 0195132793
237368208
Introduction3(13)
I: WHITE PEOPLE IN BLACK ETHNOLOGY
``Of One Blood God Created All the Nations of Men'': African-Americans Respond to the Rise of Ideological Racism, 1789--1830
13(25)
The Redeemer Race and the Angry Saxon: Race, Gender, and White People in Antebellum Black Ethnology
38(37)
``What Shall We Do with the White People?'': Whites in Postbellum Black Thought
75(42)
II: THE RACIAL THOUGHT OF THE SLAVES
``Us Is Human Flesh'': Race and Humanity in Black Folk Thought
117(33)
``Devils and Good People Walking de Road at de Same Time'': White People in Black Folk Thought
150(37)
III: NEW NEGROES, NEW WHITES: BLACK RACIAL THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
``A New Negro for a New Century'': Black Racial Ideology, 1900--1925
187(32)
Conclusion219(12)
Notes231(34)
Selected Bibliography265(15)
Index280