The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
"Still one of the finest works on this topic."--Andrew T. Miller,Union College"The best secondary text I've ever found.  It opens a class up to racial-ethnic problems, opens eyes to human perceptions.  Keep it in print!"--Robert W. Sellen,Georgia State Univ.""Jordan'sWhite Over Black...[now] published in a slightly more simplified form under the title ofThe White Man's Burden...is an outstanding work that traces the subtle, insidious and oftentimes unconscious psychology of racism in Western culture back to its Elizabethan origins."--America"The White Man's Burdenprovides a storehouse of information on the origins of racism in the United States."--Southern Humanities Review"There is no better book on its subject; nor is there likely to be one for many years."--History: Reviews of New Books"Teachers will welcome with relief the appearance of this classic study in a form suitable for classroom use."--Journal of Southern History"A very readable condensation...not only does it make Jordan's important findings accessible...but it also serves to throw into sharper relief his main argument."--George M. Fredrickson,The New York Review of Books"Precisely what was needed to make the brilliantWhite Over Blackmanageable for classroom use."--Richard Crepesi,Florida Technological University"A thoughtful, searching essay on the embryology of racism in the young Republic....For students and scholars, this is a balanced, intelligent investigation of the ideas which fathered Jim Crow."--Kirkus Reviews"Jordan's abridgement is valuable for his concise presentation of his thesis that there was a mutual relationship between prejudice against blacks and slavery, and that after slavery's establishment, other factors, especially interracial sex, created tensions which led to strict control over blacks and to their alienation by white society."--Library Journal