A HIDEOUS MONSTER OF THE MIND
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The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.
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Nott and Gliddon's agenda was unapologetically pro-slavery, anti-clerical, and political.
“Nott and Gliddon's agenda was unapologetically pro-slavery, anti-clerical, and political (Gossett 1997;Dain 2002).”
From Slavery, the Hebrew Bible and the Development of Racial Theories in the Nineteenth Century (2021) · cites this paper as Dain 2002
Morton established the skulls of Europeans to be, by every measure, the largest in size, cranial capacity, and facial angle, and those of Negroes to be the smallest by the same measures.
“Morton nonetheless had established the skulls of Europeans to be, by every measure, the largest in size, cranial capacity, and facial angle, and those of Negroes to be the smallest by the same measures (Livingstone 2008;Dain 2002).”
From Slavery, the Hebrew Bible and the Development of Racial Theories in the Nineteenth Century (2021) · cites this paper as Dain 2002
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- Authors
- Dain, B. R.
- Corresponding author
- Dain, Bruce R.
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2002-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W3152897669
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 1.44
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Keywords
- race, racial consciousness, American history, slavery, race relations
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