Skip to product information
1 of 12

julianbook

The burden of race; a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America

The burden of race; a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America

Regular price $26.40 USD
Regular price $33.00 USD Sale price $26.40 USD
Sale Sold out
Shipping calculated at checkout.

The burden of race; a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America, by Gilbert Osofsky


Publisher: New York, Harper & Row 1967

First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing.

 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; Description: xvi, 654 pages
22 cm. Contents: Section 1. Slavery: world of sorrow, world of toil. --
1. The slave trade -- 2. The law of bondage and its practice -- 3.
Attitudes toward slavery in Colonial America -- Section 2. Pariahs: free
Negroes. -- 1. Prejudice and exclusion -- 2. Urban poverty -- 3.
Early-nineteenth century American racism -- 4. Negro resistance to
expatriation -- 5. Judicial exclusion. -- Section 3. Conflicting
ideologies: Abolitionism vs. Proslavery. -- 1. Slavery and the Bible. --
2. Slavery and democracy. -- 3. Environmentalists and racists. --
Section 4. The unfulfilled revolution -- 1. Republicanism and the Negro.
-- 2. Reconstruction -- 3. Northern attitudes toward the freemen. --
Section 5. An era of hate and violence. -- 1. Disfranchisem ent of the
Negro. -- 2. The convict-lease system. -- 3. Rule by violence. -- 4. The
literature of Negro inferiority. -- 5. The role of the Supreme Court.
-- 6. The Negro stereotype. -- Section 6. Voices of protest, moderation,
accommodation. -- 1. Shifting mood and tactics. -- 2. Interracial
involvement -- 3. Early organizations in the South. -- Section 7. The
Ghetto. -- 1. Conditions in the ghetto. -- 2. Marcus Garveys Universal
Negro Improvement Association. -- 3. Racial conflict. -- 4. The revival
of the Ku Klux Klan. -- 5. The Negro artists and his reception. --
Section 8. The Roosevelt Era: a time of trial, a time of hope. -- 1. The
Negro poor. -- 2. Finding a way out. -- 3. The diffusion of leadership.
-- 4. F.D.R. and Civil Rights. -- 5. The war years. -- Section 9. The
postwar years: the spirit says do -- 1. The first steps. -- 2.
Resistance and repression. -- 3.


Listed with ExportYourStore.com

View full details