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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-100807845507
ISBN-139780807845509
eBay Product ID (ePID)181214
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Edition2
Book TitleWhite over Black : American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Number of Pages671 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorWinthrop D. Jordan
Book SeriesPublished by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN68-013295
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"One of the most important historical works of the past 40 years, contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking that made possible the election of Barack Obama." — Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street Journal, This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history.The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, White Over Blackwill stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. . . . A brilliant achievement.Richard D. Brown,New England Quarterly, [A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject.The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography, A massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made.C. Vann Woodward,New York Times Book Review, White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. . . . A brilliant achievement. Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly, "One of the most important historical works of the past 40 years, contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking that made possible the election of Barack Obama." — Gordon S. Wood,Wall Street Journal, "One of the most important historical works of the past 40 years, contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking that made possible the election of Barack Obama." -- Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street Journal, [A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography, A massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made. C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review, "One of the most important historical works of the past 40 years, contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking that made possible the election of Barack Obama." _ Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street Journal, This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history. The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Dewey Decimal973/.0974/96
SynopsisThe paperback edition of Jordan's classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations. "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.--C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review "A monumental work of scholarship, brilliant in conception and execution, humane, convincing, informed by warmth and wit, illuminating reading for all those concerned with America's tragedy. . . . As an historian with keen psychological insights into his material, Winthrop Jordan is uniquely qualified to illuminate America's anguished dilemma.-- Publishers Weekly " A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today's racial crisis, Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian's function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present.--The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography "This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history. . . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil rights agitation, it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the contemporary struggle.--The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award" White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. Its richness and insight, its sensitive, penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit, its union of breadth with depth, make it a brilliant achievement.--Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly, The paperback edition of Jordan's classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations."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." -- C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review "A monumental work of scholarship, brilliant in conception and execution, humane, convincing, informed by warmth and wit, illuminating reading for all those concerned with America's tragedy. . . . As an historian with keen psychological insights into his material, Winthrop Jordan is uniquely qualified to illuminate America's anguished dilemma." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today's racial crisis, Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian's function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present." -- The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography"This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history. . . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil rights agitation, it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the contemporary struggle." -- The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award" White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. Its richness and insight, its sensitive, penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit, its union of breadth with depth, make it a brilliant achievement." -- Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly, The paperback edition of Jordan's classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations. 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. -- C. Vann Woodward, New York Times Book Review A monumental work of scholarship, brilliant in conception and execution, humane, convincing, informed by warmth and wit, illuminating reading for all those concerned with America's tragedy. . . . As an historian with keen psychological insights into his material, Winthrop Jordan is uniquely qualified to illuminate America's anguished dilemma. -- Publishers Weekly [A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today's racial crisis, Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian's function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present. -- The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography This monumental study is a tremendously important block, fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history. . . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil rights agitation, it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the contemporary struggle. -- The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. Its richness and insight, its sensitive, penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit, its union of breadth with depth, make it a brilliant achievement. -- Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly
LC Classification NumberE185.J69
