TY - BOOK AU - Jordan,Winthrop D AU - Jordan,Winthrop D. TI - The white man's burden: historical origins of racism in the United States SN - 9780195017427 AV - E446.J82.W458 1974 PY - 1974/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Slavery KW - United States KW - History KW - African Americans KW - To 1863 N1 - "Much of the material in this book has been derived from White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812."; Acc. numbers 61122; 1; 1. Genesis: First impressions : initial English confrontation with Africans ; Unthinking decision : enslavement of Africans in America to 1700 --; 2. Provincial decades, 1700-1755: Anxious oppressors : freedom and control in a slave society ; Fruits of passion : the dynamics of interracial sex ; The souls of men : the Negro's spriritual nature ; The bodies of men : the Negro's physical nature --; 3. The Revolutionary era, 1755-1783: Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era --; 4. Society and thought, 1783-1812: The imperatives of economic interest and national identity ; The limitations of antislavery ; The cancer of revolution ; The resulting pattern of separation --; 5. Thought and society, 1783-1812: Thomas Jefferson : self and society ; The chain of being and the stamp of color ; Toward a white man's country --; Epilogue: Exodus; 2 N2 - Examines the development of racist practices, policies, and attitudes during the years of colonization and revolution ER -