Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-190) and index.
Contents
Introduction : making sense of race -- Learning to make sense -- Fooling senses, calming crisis -- Senses reconstructed, nonsense redeemed -- Finding Homer Plessy, fixing race -- The Black mind of the South -- The Brown concertina.
Summary
Offers an analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, that shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation.
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