The Making of a Racist : : a Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
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Introduction: The stuff of history -- A Confederate youth -- The making of a racist -- The unmaking of a racist -- The document -- The correspondence, part I -- The correspondence, part II -- The market -- In conclusion.
"This unique blend of memoir and history interweaves autobiography with the history of the slave trade and the American South"--Provided by publisher.
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Making a Racist in the 50's submitted by sdunav on June 18, 2017, 12:27pm An enjoyable memoir mixing family history and reflections on coming of age in Florida (with roots in Tennessee & Virginia) in the late 1950’s. Dew went on to become a historian, partially because of his experiences with racism – or you could even say, because of his racist upbringing. He thinks that if he hadn’t gone to college in Massachusetts he may never have realized just how brutal slavery and Jim Crow really were (because it was easy to just go with the status quo). It’s interesting to think how this applies to racism today, too.
PUBLISHED
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 185 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780813938875
0813938872
SUBJECTS
Dew, Charles B.
Dew, Charles B. -- Family.
Historians -- Southern States -- Biography.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
Slave trade -- Southern States -- History.
Racism -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Biography.
Southern States x Historiography.
Southern States -- History.