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Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept is a 1940 autobiographical text by W. E. B. Du Bois that examines his life and family history in the context of contemporaneous developments in race relations. Preceded decades prior by the better-known The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Dusk of Dawn focuses on Du Bois's relationship ...
The concept of race as a categorization of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) has an extensive history in Europe and the Americas. The contemporary word race itself is modern; historically it was used in the sense of " nation, ethnic group " during the 16th to 19th centuries. [1][2] Race acquired its modern meaning in the field of ...
ISBN. 978-1-84467-995-9. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life is a 2012 anthology book co-authored by sociologist Karen Fields and her sister, historian Barbara J. Fields. The book examines the origins and production of race and racism in the United States. [1][2] Published by Verso Books, Racecraft is organized as a collection of ...
According to anti-Semitism expert Leon Poliakov, author of The History of Anti-Semitism, it was “the first example in history of legalized racism.” Where Did the Concept of Race Come from, Anyway?
The term color line was originally used as a reference to the racial segregation that existed in the United States after the abolition of slavery. An article by Frederick Douglass that was titled "The Color Line" [1] was published in the North American Review in 1881. The phrase gained fame after W. E. B. Du Bois ' repeated use of it in his ...
Black Marxism. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, first published in 1983, again in 2000 and a third edition in 2020, is a book written by the scholar Cedric Robinson. Influenced by many African-American and Black economists and radical thinkers of the 19th century, Robinson creates a historical-critical analysis of ...
Final issue. December 1921. (1921-12) Country. United States. Based in. New York City. The Brownies' Book was the first magazine published for African-American children and youth. [1] Its creation was mentioned in the yearly children's issue of The Crisis in October 1919.
496. ISBN. 978-0393049343. The History of White People is a 2010 book by Nell Irvin Painter, in which the author explores the idea of whiteness throughout history, beginning with ancient Greece and continuing through the beginning of scientific racism in early modern Europe to 19th- through 21st-century America. [citation needed]