The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South

Author(s): Lawrence J. Friedman

Social Science, Economic History, Race/Identity, Peace/Cultural/ International Studies | USA, Canada

"The author explores the subjective world of white Southerners between the Civil War and World War I to disclose their racial fantasies and the social and psychological roots of those fantasies. He reveals how a complex set of anxieties and repressions in Southern life led whites to need "Negro" Inferiority."

Book in good condition. Tanning on first and last pages and on outside page edges.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : CIR1664498960
  • : Prentice Hall
  • : Prentice Hall
  • : 01 January 1970
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lawrence J. Friedman
  • : Hardcover
  • : 184