Open wound : the long view of race in America /
William McKee Evans.
- xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-320) and index.
How the American racial system began: Atlantic slavery becomes market-driven and color-defined -- Anglo Americans adopt the Atlantic racial system -- The construction of planter hegemony, 1676-1776 -- The era of the American Revolution: the challenge to slavery and the compromise -- The old south's triumph -- The old south's crisis and the emergence of the white solidarity myth -- Emancipated but Black: freedom in the free states -- The planter and the "wage slave": a reactionary alliance -- King cotton's jesters: the minstrel show interprets race for the white working class -- The war of the cabins: the struggle for the soul of the "common man" -- The republican revolution and the struggle for a "new birth of freedom" -- Reconstruction: the radical challenge, 1865-77 -- Between slavery and freedom: the conservative quest for a halfway house -- The Age of segregation at its zenith: the racial system in a world of colonialism -- Radical challenge, liberal reform: African Americans gain new allies -- The American century, the American dilemma -- The Black freedom movement -- The racial system in the age of corporate globalism, technological revolution, and environmental crisis.