Christopher Leslie Brown is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and coeditor of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
White over Black remains a signal achievement in American
historiography, a rich analytical and stylistic bequest to early
American scholarship."--William and Mary Quarterly
One of the most important historical works of the past 40 years,
contributing to the cultural shift in white thinking that made
possible the election of Barack Obama."--Gordon S. Wood, Wall
Street Journal
The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and
brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and
humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these
qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and
learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive
pronouncement on the subject yet made." --C. Vann Woodward, New
York Times Book Review
This monumental study is a tremendously important block,
fascinating and appalling, of American social and cultural history.
. . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil
rights agitation, it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation
of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the
contemporary struggle." --The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee
for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of
this generation. Its richness and insight, its sensitive,
penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit, its
union of breadth with depth, make it a brilliant
achievement."--Richard D. Brown, New England Quarterly
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