American Nightmare
Subtitle: The History of Jim Crow
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: July 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312302412
Subjects: Race And Ethnic Relations; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History; Sociology; History: American; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - 19th Century; Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: We can, of course, little more than hypothesize how our racial passions first began to overtake us, how humankind's obsession to embrace the similar and despise the different got stuck in our communal psyche, and why, most pertinent to this book, white people have seemingly forever assumed an innate superiority over black people.