Past Is Not Dead: Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes

by Allan Pred

A study of the genealogy and perpetuation of stereotyping

Through one figure--Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court--Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West.

In the first of two interlocking montages inspired by Walter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644063
• ISBN13: 9780816644063
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"