The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States

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?

Author: Winthrop D. Jordan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/24/1974
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.54w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780195017434
ISBN10: 0195017439
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- History | General

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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