The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States (Galaxy Books) - Softcover

Jordan, Winthrop D.

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9780195017434: The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States (Galaxy Books)

Synopsis

An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?

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About the Author

Winthrop D. Jordan was professor of history, University of Mississippi and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States.

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9780195017427: The white man's burden;: Historical origins of racism in the United States

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ISBN 10:  0195017420 ISBN 13:  9780195017427
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1974
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