Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

by James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133361
• ISBN13: 9780807133361
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"