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White Over Black by Winthrop D Jordan

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The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review

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White Over Black by Winthrop D Jordan

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.
Christopher Leslie Brown is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and coeditor of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
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ISBN 13 9780807871416
ISBN 10 0807871419
Title White Over Black
Author Winthrop D Jordan
Series Published By The Omohundro Institute Of Early American History And Culture And The University Of North Carolina Press
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Year published 2012-02-06
Number of pages 696
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