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Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

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June 27, 2020 | History

The White Savage

Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

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"I am not a nigger, I am a man.
And the question is
WHY DO YOU NEED A NIGGER?"
James Baldwin once demanded.

This question expresses the pivotal issue of American race relations, although most thistorians overlook the point. Lawrence J. Friedman is one of the few historians who has concentrated on discovering why whites, particularly Southern whites, have craved docile Negro behavior.

In THE WHITE SAVAGE: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South, Friedman explores the subjective world of white Southerners between the Civil War and World War I to disclose their racial fantasies and the social and psychological roots of those fantasies. He reveals how a complex set of anxieties and repression in Southern life led whites to need Negro "inferiority."

Today many whites still look for subservient behavior from blacks. Too many Americans are comfortable with "Uncle Toms" -- and hate and fear militant blacks. Deplorable though it may be, the racism evident in the postbellum South still permeates our society. In Lawrence J. Friendman's words, "white savagery reigns supreme."

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Prentice-Hall
Language
English
Pages
190

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Table of Contents

Preface. v
I PROLOGUE. 1
1. "Gone Are the Days". 3
II FINDING THE WAY OUT: SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS TO THE "NEGRO PROBLEM". 19
2 "Nigger Here, Nigger There". 21
3 Wattersonia: The Road to Autonomy. 37
4 The New Cavalier Literature. 57
5 From Politics to Purity: The Crusade of the Powerless. 77
6 Heresy in the New South: The Case for George W. Cable. 99
III BLACK AND WHITE APART. 119
7 Black Masks, White Fears. 126
8 A Nation of Savages. 150
Bibliographical Note. 173
Index. 179

Edition Notes

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$2.45; C$2.95

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Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Series
A Spectrum Book; S-198;New Insights in History Series
Copyright Date
1970

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Format
Trade paperback
Pagination
vi, 184 p.
Number of pages
190
Dimensions
20 x 14 x 1.5 centimeters
Weight
226 grams

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Open Library
OL14943840M
Internet Archive
whitesavageracia0000frie
ISBN 10
0139576053
OCLC/WorldCat
634197627
Library Thing
740155
Goodreads
6236014

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