Historical studies of white racial thought focus exclusively on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study is the first to examine the reverse — black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories. Bay examines African-American ideas about white racial character and destiny in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In examining black racial thought, this work also explores the extent to which black Americans
accepted or rejected 19th century notions about innate racial characteristics.
- ISBN10 0195132793
- ISBN13 9780195132793
- Publish Date 30 March 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 296
- Language English