Portrait of a Scientific Racist

by Hollandsworth, James G., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780807133361
• ISBN10: 0807133361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

"In Portrait of a Scientific Racist James G. Hollandsworth Jr. reveals how the conjectures of one of the country's most prominent racial theorists, Alfred Holt Stone, helped justify a repressive racial order that relegated African Americans to the margins of southern society in the early 1900s." "In this revealing biography, Hollandsworth examines the thoughts and motives of this renowned man, focusing primarily on Stone's most intensive period of theorizing, from 1900 to 1910." "Hollandsworth uses Stone's extensive correspondence with Willcox, Du Bois, and Washington, as well as his personal writings - both published and unpublished - to reveal the secrets of this misguided, yet fascinating, figure."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: The American Race Problem	p. 1
An Orderly Brain	p. 20
Essentials of Greatness	p. 26
No Twilight Zone	p. 37
Food For the Human Mind	p. 46
The Business of Raising Cotton	p. 62
Convictions of Southern Men	p. 76
My Life Work	p. 91
I Am Not A Negrophobist	p. 104
Destructive Propensity	p. 131
Frank, Without Being Offensive	p. 161
Severe and Discriminating Criticism	p. 185
A Slave to Business	p. 211
In Public Duty	p. 233
And in Private Thinking	p. 250
Verification of Stone's Authorship of Editorials in the Greenville Times	p. 273
Verification of Stone's Annotations	p. 276
Reconciling Stone's Books with His Collections	p. 279
Should the N in Negro Be Capitalized?	p. 281
Stone's Letter to LeRoy Percy	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 287
Index	p. 309
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