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<p><P>How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. <P>Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves. By contrast, the ways in which blacks saw whites have remained a historical and intellectual mystery. Reversing the focus of such fundamental studies as George Fredrickson's <b>The Black Image</b> <b>in the White Mind</b>, Bay investigates this mystery. In doing so, she uncovers and elucidates the racial thought of a wide range of nineteenth-century African-Americans&#151;educated and unlettered, male and female, free and enslaved.</p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>With a title that makes an unveiled reference to George Fredrickson's classic The Black Image in the White Mind (1971), this study takes a l

Author

Mia Bay

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610655090

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science