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In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them--an issue they termed the "negro problem." In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrected old proslavery arguments and sought new justification in scientific theories purporting to "prove" people of African descent inherently inferior to whites. In Portrait of a Scientific Racist, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals how the conjectures of one of the country's most prominent racial theorists, Alfred Holt Stone, helped justify a repressive racial order that relegated African Americans to the margins of southern society in the early 1900s. In this revealing biography, Hollandsworth examines the thoughts and motives of this renowned man, focusing primarily on Stone's most intensive period of theorizing, from 1900 to 1910. A committed and vocal white supremacist, Stone believed black southern workers were inherently lazy, a trait he attributed to their African genes and heritage. He asserted that slavery helped improve the black race but that opportunities still existed during Reconstruction to mol

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Author

James G., Jr. Hollandsworth

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807154687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24