The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality

George M. Fredrickson

Wesleyan University Press, Feb 1, 1989 - Social Science - 310 pages

The Arrogance of Race is a significant contribution to the historiography of slavery and racism in America. George Fredrickson, one of the most respected and cogent historians of this complex and troubling subject, maintains that racism is a cultural phenomenon not a mere by-product of class conflict and colonialism. He opts for a "dualistic" rather than a more popular monolithic explanation of the tragedy of racism.

Contents

• The Role of Race in: 15
• Racial Equality: 54
• Garrison Frederick Douglass Lydia Maria Child: 73
• Albion W Tourgee and Reconstruction: 94
• Part: 107
• on Slavery and Merchant Capital: 125
• Aristocracy and Democracy in the Southern: 134
• The Historiography of Postemancipation Southern: 154
• Some Recent Views of: 161
• Part Three: 183
• Social Origins of American Racism: 189
• White Images of Black Slaves in the Old South: 206
• The United States: 216
• The American: 236
• Political Foundations: 254
• Notes: 271
• Index: 295
• Acknowledgments: 311

About the author

GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON has been Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University since 1984. He is author of The Inner Civil War, The Black Image in the White Mind (Wesleyan Paperback), and White Supremacy, for which he won the Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Merle Curti awards; this book was also a Pulitzer Prize runner-up. The Black Image in the White Mind received the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

A graduate of Harvard University (A.B. 1956, Ph.D. 1964), Fredrickson served in he U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960 and taught at Northwestern University from 1966 to 1984; he was William Smith Mason Professor after 1979. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo in 1956-57 and a Fulbright professor of American History at Moscow University in 1983. FREDRICKSON has twice been appointed senior fellow of National Endowment for the Humanities; he was a Guggenhim fellow in 1968-69 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His home is in Stanford, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality
• Author: George M. Fredrickson
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0819562173, 9780819562173
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies