TY  - BOOK
AU  - Evans,William McKee
TI  - Open wound: the long view of race in America 
SN  - 0252034279
AV  - E185 .E93 2009
U1  - 973.0496073 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
ER  -