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The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
Author(s): Mia Bay (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication Date: 10 Feb. 2000
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 298 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195132793
- ISBN-13: 9780195132793
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"[Bay] explores the time-centered context that shaped the images slaves and freedmen formed of white people in the period before and following emancipation...An excellent work that relates the roots of race-centered ideology to their past precedents."--Booklist
"While many scholars have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the image of Black people in Western culture, very few have thought it important to examine the role that images of white people played in the Black cultural imagination. Mia Bay has done just this in this subtle and elegant study, a truly germinal contribution to American historiography."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research, Harvard University
"By revealing for the first time what blacks thought about whites in the era of slavery and segregation, this incisive work adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of black-white relations in American history. It is deeply researched, astute in its interpretation, and very readable."--George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University
"A meticulous and imaginative reconstruction of compelling chapters in African American cultural and intellectual history. Bay is equally at home in probing the responses of Black intellectuals to racist ethnology and in mining slave narratives for evidence of the complex views of white people developed by those for whom whiteness was most acutely experienced as a problem in everyday life."--David Roediger, University of Minnesota
"[Bay] addresses an important question about black thought, in the past and in the present. Why have so many black thinkers readily embraced notions of racial difference, when such ideas were not only the mainstay of white supremacy, but also philosophically damaging to the cause of equality?"--The New Republic
"A detailed and often insightful analysis of American racial thought."--Journal of American Ethnic History
"Trenchant and insightful...[An] exhaustive documentary survey."--Journal of Southern History
"Deeply researched, well crafted, and engagingly written work. It will long be considered important for broaching issues of central concern to all who study the black past."--Reviews in American History
Review
Review
"[Bay] explores the time-centered context that shaped the images slaves and freedmen formed of white people in the period before and following emancipation...An excellent work that relates the roots of race-centered ideology to their past precedents."--Booklist
"While many scholars have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the image of Black people in Western culture, very few have thought it important to examine the role that images of white people played in the Black cultural imagination. Mia Bay has done just this in this subtle and elegant study, a truly germinal contribution to American historiography."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research, Harvard University
"By revealing for the first time what blacks thought about whites in the era of slavery and segregation, this incisive work adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of black-white relations in American history. It is deeply researched, astute in its interpretation, and very readable."--George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University
"A meticulous and imaginative reconstruction of compelling chapters in African American cultural and intellectual history. Bay is equally at home in probing the responses of Black intellectuals to racist ethnology and in mining slave narratives for evidence of the complex views of white people developed by those for whom whiteness was most acutely experienced as a problem in everyday life."--David Roediger, University of Minnesota
"[Bay] addresses an important question about black thought, in the past and in the present. Why have so many black thinkers readily embraced notions of racial difference, when such ideas were not only the mainstay of white supremacy, but also philosophically damaging to the cause of equality?"--The New Republic
"A detailed and often insightful analysis of American racial thought."--Journal of American Ethnic History
"Trenchant and insightful...[An] exhaustive documentary survey."--Journal of Southern History
"Deeply researched, well crafted, and engagingly written work. It will long be considered important for broaching issues of central concern to all who study the black past."--Reviews in American History
From the Publisher
"While many scholars have devoted a considerable amount of attention to the image of Black people in Western culture, very few have thought it important to examine the role that images of white people played in the Black cultural imagination. Mia Bay has done just this in this subtle and elegant study, a truly germinal contribution to American historiography."- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research, Harvard University
"By revealing for the first time what blacks thought about white in the era of slavery and segregation, this incisive work adds a whole new dimension to our understanding of black-white relations in American history. It is deeply researched, astute in its interpretation, and very readable."- George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University
"A meticulous and imaginative reconstruction of compelling chapters in African American cultural and intellectual history. Bay is equally at home in probing the responses of Black intellectuals to racist ethnology and in mining slave narratives for evidence of the complex views of white people developed by those for whom whiteness was most acutely experienced as a problem in everyday life."- David Roediger, University of Minnesota
