Portrait of a scientific racist
Subtitle: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi
By: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780807133361
Subjects: Stone, Alfred Holt, -- 1870-1955; Stone, Alfred Holt, -- 1870-1955 -- Political and social views; Mississippi. -- State Tax Commission -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Plantation owners -- Mississippi -- Biography; Cotton farmers -- Mississippi -- Biography; Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; Eugenics -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century; Racism -- United States -- Philosophy; Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Portrait of a Scientific Racist James G. Hollandsworth Jr. reveals how the conjectures of one of the country's most prominent racial theorists, Alfred Holt Stone, helped justify a repressive racial order that relegated African Americans to the margins of southern society in the early 1900s." "In this revealing biography, Hollandsworth examines the thoughts and motives of this renowned man, focusing primarily on Stone's most intensive period of theorizing, from 1900 to 1910." "Hollandsworth uses Stone's extensive correspondence with Willcox, Du Bois, and Washington, as well as his personal writings - both published and unpublished - to reveal the secrets of this misguided, yet fascinating, figure."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The American race problem; title: An orderly brain; title: Essentials of greatness; title: No twilight zone; title: Food for the human mind; title: The business of raising cotton; title: Convictions of southern men; title: My life work; title: I am not a Negrophobist; title: Destructive propensity; title: Frank, without being offensive; title: Severe and discriminating criticism; title: A slave to business; title: In public duty; title: And in private thinking; title: Appendix A: Verification of Stone's authorship of editorials in the Greenville times; title: Appendix B: Verification of Stone's annotations; title: Appendix C: Reconciling Stone's books with his collections; title: Appendix D: Should the n in Negro be capitalized?; title: Appendix E: Stone's letter to Leroy Percy.