The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

by Mia Bay

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195132793
• ISBN13: 9780195132793
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"