In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device-the spirometer-to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employing th…
In the antebellum South, plantation physsicians used a new medical device - the spirometer - to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a large study of racial difference employi…
In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a "dumping ground" for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populati…
In MAKING THE WHITE MAN'S WEST, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
"The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man's West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Pu…
A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-white population explosion--P. [4] of cover.
Introduction: Evangelical Christianity and the problem of difference -- "A grand and awful time"--Faith and hope -- Callings -- Congregation -- Conflict and community -- Conclusion: Transformations
"Nice Racism asserts that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of color"--. We've all seen it. A white person is called to account for racism and responds with incredulity, offering a litany of justifications and excuses. Whi…