Argues that white racism has been detrimental to whites as well as Blacks, discusses the implications of slavery, and looks at the impact of slavery on the author's life

Traces the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial origins of the plantation system through the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, and examines the ways race has shaped the history of the United States. Simultaneous.

Republished with a modern introduction, an edition of the African-American intellectual's 1884 work traces the black American experience from its earliest days of the country's colonization through the Reconstruction, a period after which the writer concludes that black people remained aliens and were denied the rights and responsibilities of true American citizenship. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: 'This is a contemporary book, you bet.' Indeed, Black Like Me remains required reading in thousands of high schools and colleges forthis very reason. Regardless of how much progress has been made in eliminating outright racism from American life, Black Like Me endures as a great human b6s and humanitarian b6s document. In our era, when 'international' terrorism is most often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation and a single religion, we need to be reminded that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. As John Lennon wrote, 'Living is easy with eyes closed.' Black Like Me is the story of a man whoopened his eyes, and helped an entire nation to do likewise.

Product Description: "A provocative explanation of how differences in slavery and later abolition movements produced different responses in post-abolition societies and contributed significantly to the creation of the southern myth."--Sylvia Frey, Tulane UniversityProviding new insights into the origins of benevolent myths about the Old South, Nathalie Dessens compares slave systems of the Caribbean and the American South from the early days of European colonization to the abolition of slavery...read more

Product Description: The daughter of white Massachusetts abolitionists, Christensen began teaching black students in Beaufort, South Carolina in the 1870s. Tetzlaff (history, Indiana U.-South Bend) describes how she collected African-American folklore and engaged in reform movements such as women's suffrage and socialism as part of her effort to create a New South...read more

During and after the days of slavery in the United States, one way in which slaveowners, overseers, and other whites sought to control the black population was to encourage and exploit a fear of the supernatural. By planting rumors of evil spirits, haunted places, body-snatchers, and "night doctors"--even by masquerading as ghosts themselves--they discouraged the unauthorized movement of blacks, particularly at night, by making them afraid of meeting otherworldly beings. Blacks out after dark also risked encounters with "patterollers" (mounted surveillance patrols) or, following the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan. Whatever their guise, all of these "night riders" had one purpose: to manipulate blacks through terror and intimidation. First published in 1975, this book explores the gruesome figure of the night rider in black folk history. Gladys-Marie Fry skillfully draws on oral history sources to show that, quite apart from its veracity, such lore became an important facet of the lived experience of blacks in America. This classic work continues to be a rich source for students and teachers of folklore, African American history, and slavery and postemancipation studies.

Product Description: In the early 1940s, rumors of impending and actual race wars circulated furiously among white Southerners. Apparently with the aid of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, liberals, Yankees, New Dealers, and "bad niggers," once docile African-Americans were stockpiling ice picks in Charleston, ordering carton loads of pistols and rifles from the Sears catalog in Memphis, and plotting insurrection against whites at every turn...read more

Describes the events that led a white American writer to darken his skin and live for a time as an African American in the Deep South

Product Description: An examination of individuals who enacted change in the status, opportunities, and treatment of African Americans in the rural South

Product Description: This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences. Comprising 9 papers and related commentary, "African Americans in the South" examines racism, class stratification and sexism as they bear on the African-American struggle for social justice, equality and cultural identity in the South...read more

Reveals the correlations and the discrepancies between the myth and the reality of the New South