Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Making of a RacistCondition: NewSubtitle: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave TradeEAN: 9780813940397ISBN: 9780813940397Publisher: University of Virginia PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2017Description: In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South-and particularly its history of slavery-turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.Dew re-creates the midcentury American South of his childhood-in many respects a boy’s paradise, but one stained by Lost Cause revisionism and, worse, by the full brunt of Jim Crow. Through entertainments and ""educational"" books that belittled African Americans, as well as the living examples of his own family, Dew was indoctrinated in a white supremacy that, at best, was condescendingly paternalistic and, at worst, brutally intolerant. The fear that southern culture, and the ""hallowed white male brotherhood,"" could come undone through the slightest flexibility in the color line gave the Jim Crow mindset its distinctly unyielding quality. Dew recalls his father, in most regards a decent man, becoming livid over a black tradesman daring to use the front, and not the back, door.The second half of the book shows how this former Confederate youth and descendant of Thomas Roderick Dew, one of slavery’s most passionate apologists, went on to reject his racist upbringing and become a scholar of the South and its deeply conflicted history. The centerpiece of Dew’s story is his sobering discovery of a price circular from 1860-an itemized list of humans up for sale. Contemplating this document becomes Dew’s first step in an exploration of antebellum Richmond’s slave trade that investigates the terrible-but, to its white participants, unremarkable-inhumanity inherent in the institution.Dew’s wish with this book is to show how the South of his childhood came into being, poisoning the minds even of honorable people, and to answer the question put to him by Illinois Browning Culver, the African American woman who devoted decades of her life to serving his family: ""Charles, why do the grown-ups put so much hate in the children?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Charles B. DewGenre: BiographyTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Children's Learning & Education, History, Home Garden & PetsItem Weight: 240gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Making of a Racist
Title: The Making of a Racist
Subtitle: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
EAN: 9780813940397
ISBN: 9780813940397
Release Date: 09/30/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Topic: Home Garden & Pets
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Making of a Racist : a Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Subject: Slavery, United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, General, Historical, United States / General
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Charles B. Dew
Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
