The Making of a Racist : A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade by Dew, Charles B

University of Virginia Press, 2016-08-09. hardcover. Good. 5x0x8.

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Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. First edition. Jacket spine base bumped. 2016 Hard Cover. xi, 185 pp. In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood--in many respects a boy’s paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause revisionism and, worse, by the full brunt of Jim Crow. Through entertainments and "educational" books that belittled African Americans, as well as the living examples of his own family, Dew was indoctrinated in a white supremacy that, at best, was condescendingly paternalistic and, at worst, brutally intolerant. The fear that southern culture, and the "hallowed white male… Read More

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2016.

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