A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic

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.

Author(s): Bruce Dain
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Pages: 334
Categories: History