The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States.

Abstract

Historical Origins of Racism in the United States WINTHROP D. JORDAN, University of California, Berkeley. 0 Derived largely from the author's award-winning White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, this provocative new book demonstrates that American racism has its roots in the earliest period of the nation's history. Professor Jordan traces the evolution of white racial attitudes toward blacks from Elizabethan England to the War of 1812. Well-suited to classroom use for courses in early American history and Afro-American history.-Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University 1974 248 pp. A Galaxy Book $1.95