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Anti-Racism in U.S. History The First Two Hundred Years

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By Herbert Aptheker

ISBN: 0-275-94808-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94808-5

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264 pages

Praeger Paperback

Publication: 8/30/1993

List Price: $31.95 (UK Sterling Price: £18.95)

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Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, 1992

Description: Many books, both popular and scholarly, have examined racism in the United States, but this unique volume is the first to examine the existence of anti-racism in the first two hundred years of U.S. history. Herbert Aptheker challenges the view that racism was universally accepted by whites. His book thoroughly debunks the myth that white people never cared about the plight of African-Americans until just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Covering the period from the 1600s through the 1860s, Aptheker begins with a short introduction and a questioning of racism's pervasiveness, taking examples of anti-racism from the literature. He then devotes sections to sexual relations, racism and anti-racism, to joint struggles to reject racism, and to a discussion of Grégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism. Next he considers "inferiority" as viewed by poets, preachers, and teachers and by entrepreneuers, seamen, and cowboys. After a consideration of the Quakers, he turns his attention to the American and French revolutions and racism and to the Republic's early years and racism. Aptheker then devotes several sections to Abolitionism and concludes the work with the "the Crisis Decade," the Civil War, Emancipation, and anti-racism. This book by a well-known scholar in the field will be of interest to all concerned with U.S. history and African American history.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Anti-Racism: Denial and Distortion
Questioning Racism's Pervasiveness
Anti-Racism's Presence: Examples from the Literature
Sexual Relations
Rejecting Racism by Joint Struggle
Grégoire, Banneker, and Jeffersonianism
"Inferiority" and Poets, Preachers, and Teachers
"Inferiority" and Entrepreneurs, Seamen, and Cowboys
From Egypt to Philosophes to Quakers
The American and French Revolutions
The Republic's Early Years
The New Century's Youth
Lane Rebels and Black Rebels
Abolitionism and Racism
Immortals of Literature and Martyrs for Freedom
From Liberty Party to Republican Party
The Crisis Decade
The Civil War and Emancipation
Bibliographic Comment
Index

LC Card Number: 91-24177

LCC Class: E185

Dewey Class: 305.8


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