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Portrait of a Scientific Racist
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 s...
The Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1948
The Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1948, primarily contains an article by Alfred Holt Stone (1870-1955), a lawyer and cotton planter in Mississippi. Stone served as president of the MHS, and authored a history of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as well as a collection of articles on race, including A Mississippian's View of civil Rights, States Rights, and the Reconstruction Background. A second major article by Willie D. Halsell is Migration into and Settlement of Leflore County in the Later Periods, 19876-1920.
The Human Tradition in the New South
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.
Slavery, Race and American History
These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions.
