Table of Contents

Introduction:
1. Desegregating American Racial Thought
2. Overview
Part I: White People in Black Ethnology
Chapter 1: "Of One Blood God Created All The Nations Of Men": African-Americans Respond to the Rise of Ideological Racism, 1789-1830
Chapter 2: The Redeemer Race and the Angry Saxon: Race, Gender, and White People in Antebellum Black Ethnology
Chapter 3: "What Shall We Do With The White People?": Whites in Postbellum Black Thought
Part II: The Racial Thought of the Slaves
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 4: "Us Is Human Flesh": The Racial Thought of the Slaves
Chapter 5: "Devils and Good People Walking De Road At De Same Time": White People in Black Folk Thought
Part III: New Negroes, New Whites: Black Racial Thought in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 6: "A New Negro For A New Country": Black Racial Ideology, 1900-1925
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the Author

Mia Bay is Assistant Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University.

Reviews

This is a meticulous and thought-provoking study of a hitherto neglected topic. It will deservedly take its place alongside the best recent scholarship on the enduring problem of race in American history American Nineteenth Century History An important and timely investigation of African American conceptions of race from the Revolutionary era to the 1920s ... Its scope is also considerably broader than just a consideration of African American ideas about whites, the author having much to say about white racism, self-conceptions of black identity, and race relations in general American Nineteenth Century History