Portrait of a scientific racist : Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi / James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

Author: Hollandsworth, James G., Jr., 1944-2010
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date: ©2008
Physical Description: xv, 318 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: The American race problem -- An orderly brain -- Essentials of greatness -- No twilight zone -- Food for the human mind -- The business of raising cotton -- Convictions of southern men -- My life work -- I am not a Negrophobist -- Destructive propensity -- Frank, without being offensive -- Severe and discriminating criticism -- A slave to business -- In public duty -- And in private thinking -- Appendix A: Verification of Stone's authorship of editorials in the Greenville times -- Appendix B: Verification of Stone's annotations -- Appendix C: Reconciling Stone's books with his collections -- Appendix D: Should the n in Negro be capitalized? -- Appendix E: Stone's letter to Leroy Percy.

Subject(s)

Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955
Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955—Political and social views
Mississippi. State Tax Commission—Officials and employees—Biography
Plantation owners—Mississippi—Biography
Cotton farmers—Mississippi—Biography
Racism—Mississippi—History—20th century
Eugenics—Mississippi—History—20th century
Racism—United States—Philosophy
Eugenics—United States—History—20th century
Mississippi—Race relations—History—20th century

ISBN

9780807133361 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807133361 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index.

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