{"id":6033,"date":"2010-03-16T00:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2015-01-04T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:11:00","slug":"white-over-black-american-attitudes-toward-the-negro-1550-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6033","title":{"rendered":"White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=16\" target=\"_blank\">White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of North Carolina Press<br \/>\n1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995)<br \/>\n671 pages<br \/>\n8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9<br \/>\nPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winthrop_Jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Winthrop D. Jordan<\/a><\/strong> (1931-2007)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/book_detail?title_id=16\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunsite.unc.edu\/uncpress\/pics\/jackets\/j\/jordan_white.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Winner of the 1968 Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Winner of the 1969 National Book Award <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Winner of the 1969 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Winner of the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The paperback edition of Jordan&#8217;s classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preface<br \/>\nAcknowledgments<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part One. GENESIS 1550-1700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Blackness Without <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Causes of Complexion <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defective Religion <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Savage Behavior <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Apes of Africa <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Blackness Within<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>II. Unthinking Decision: Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Necessities of a New World <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Freedom and Bondage in the English Tradition <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Concept of Slavery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Practices of Portingals and Spanyards <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Enslavement: The West Indies <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Enslavement: New England <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Racial Slavery: From Reasons to Rational<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Part Two. PROVINCIAL DECADES 1700-1755<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>III. Anxious Oppressors: Freedom and Control in a Slave Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Demographic Configurations in the Colonies <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Slavery and the Senses of the Laws <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Slave Rebelliousness and the White Mastery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Free Negroes and Fears of Freedom <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Racial Slavery in a Free Society<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>IV. Fruits of Passion: The Dynamics of Interracial Sex<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Regional Styles in Racial Intermixture <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Masculine and Feminine Modes in Carolina and America <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Dismemberment, Physiology, and Sexual Perceptions <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Secularization of Reproduction <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mulatto Offspring in a Biracial Society <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>V. The Souls of Men: The Negro&#8217;s Spiritual Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Christian Principles and the Failure of Conversion <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Question of Negro Capacity <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Spiritual Equality and Temporal Subordination <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Thin Edge of Antislavery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Inclusion and Exclusion in the Protestant Churches <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Religious Revivial and the Impact of Conversion<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>VI. The Bodies of Men: The Negro&#8217;s Physical Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Confusion, Order and Hierarchy <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Negroes, Apes, and Beasts <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rational Science and Irrational Logic <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Indians, Africans, and the Complexion of Man <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Valuation of Color <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Negroes Under the Skin<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Part Three. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA 1755-1783<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VII. Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Quaker Conscience and Consciousness <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Discovery of Prejudice <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Assertions of Sameness <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmentalism\" target=\"_blank\">Environmentalism<\/a> and Revolutionary Ideology <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Secularization of Equality <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Proslavery Case of Negro Inferiority <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Revolution as Turning Point<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Pt. 4 SOCIETY AND THOUGHT 1783-1812<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>VIII. The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Economics of Slavery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Union and Sectionalism <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A National Forum for Debate <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Nationhood and Identity <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Non-English Englishment<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>IX. The Limitations of Antislavery<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Pattern of Antislavry <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Failings of Revolutionary Ideology <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Quaker View Beyond Emancipation <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Religious Equalitarianism <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Humanitarianism\" target=\"_blank\">Humanitarianism<\/a> and Sentimentality <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Success and Failure of Antislavery <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>X. The Cancer of Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>St. Domingo <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Non-Importation of Rebellion <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Contagion of Liberty <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Slave Disobedience in America <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Impact of Negro Revolt<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>XI. The Resulting Pattern of Separation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Hardening of Slavery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Restraint of Free Negroes <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Walls of Separation <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Negro Churches <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Part Five THOUGH AND SOCIETY 1783-1812<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>XII. Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Jefferson: The Tyranny of Slavery <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Jefferson: The Assertion of Negro Inferiority <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Issue of Intellect <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Acclaim of Talented Negroes <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Jefferson: Passionate Realities <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Jefferson: White Women and Black <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Interracial Sex: The Individual and His Society <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Jefferson: A Dichotomous View of Triracial America<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>XIII. The Negro Bound by the Chain of Being<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linnaean_enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">Linnaean<\/a> Categories and the Chain of Being <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Two Modes of Equality <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Hierarchies of Men <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Anatomical Investigations <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Unlinking and Linking the Chain <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Faithful Philosophy in Defense of Human Unity <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Study of Man in the Republic <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>XIV. Erasing Nature&#8217;s Stamp of Color<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Nature&#8217;s Blackball <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Effects of Climate and Civilization <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Disease of Color <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>White Negroes <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Logic of Blackness and Inner Similarity <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Winds of Change <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>An End of Environmentalism <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Persistent Themes <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>XV. Toward a White Man&#8217;s Country<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>The Emancipation and Intermixture <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Beginning of Colonization <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Virginia Program <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Insurrection and Expatriation in Virginia <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Meaning of Negro Removal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>XVI. Exodus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Note on the Concept of Race<br \/>\nEssay on Sources<br \/>\nSelect List of Full Titles<br \/>\nMap: Percentage of Negroes in Total Non-Aboriginal Population, 1790<br \/>\nIndex<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 University of North Carolina Press 1968-09-25 (Republished: September 1995) 671 pages 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches ISBN: 978-0-8078-4550-9 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Winthrop D. 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