The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade

by Charles B. Dew

Book Overview

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.

Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood--in many respects a boy's paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause revisionism and, worse, by the full brunt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938872
• ISBN13: 9780813938875
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher