Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (102 page)

McKinley, William,
285

McKissick, Floyd,
395

McWhorter, John,
471–473
,
484
,
496

Mead, Lawrence,
449

Mecca, Malcolm X’s hajj to,
384–385

media

abandonment of Reconstruction,
254–255

anti-inoculators,
72

condemnation of the Black Power movement,
396–397

death of Cotton Mather,
76

Douglass and Garrison’s parting of the ways,
200–201

Douglass’s
Narrative
,
184–185

Du Bois on Northern segregationist practices,
338–339

Du Bois’s publishing career,
264
,
267

first Black newspaper,
154–155

Garrison’s
Liberator
,
168–169
,
172–173
,
193
,
200–201
,
237–238

George Wallace’s public ideology,
372

Hurricane Katrina coverage,
485

mocking polygenesis,
199

penny press publishing “bad” news,
169–170

Plessy v. Ferguson
,
279

promoting negative Black stereotypes,
438–439

racist ridicule of Michelle Obama,
490

stories about crack babies,
441

urban violence after World War I,
314–315

War on Drugs,
434–435

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
311

Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions
(Mather),
60–61

Memphis riot,
240

Men Before Adam
(La Peyrère),
51

Mennonites,
52

Mercer, Charles Fenton,
144–145
,
148

Mexican-American War (1846),
186

middle-income Blacks,
367
,
416–417
,
428
,
504

midterm elections,
207

Military Order of Christ,
22–23

militia, Black,
256–257

Miller, Samuel,
253

Million Man March,
462–464

Million Woman March,
467

minstrel shows,
170–171
,
284
,
306

miscegenation,
39
,
41–43
,
67–68
,
117–118
,
120
,
310–311
,
319–320

The Mis-Education of the Negro
(Woodson),
336

The Mismeasure of Man
(Gould),
432
,
459

missionaries,
46
,
48
,
65
,
73–74
,
87–88

missionary expeditions, slave trade disguised as,
23

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP),
388

Missouri Question,
151–153

Mitchell, Charlene,
409
,
411

Mitchell, Joseph,
219

Mock, Janet,
500

monogenesis theory,
84–85
,
101–105
,
133–136
,
138–139

Monroe, James,
144
,
148

Montagu, Ashley,
353

Montagu, John,
95

Montgomery, Ed,
411

Montgomery Bus Boycott,
365–366

Morocco, slave trade and,
22–24
,
28

Morrison, Toni,
415
,
482

Morton, Samuel,
179–180
,
198

Moss, Henry,
127–128
,
133–134

Moss, Otis, III,
488

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD),
438

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
372–374
,
391–393
,
400
,
469

Ms
. (magazine),
420

Muhammad, Elijah,
366

mulatto,
85–86
,
180–181

The Mulatto in the United States
(Reuter),
310

Mules and Men
(Hurston),
345–346

multiculturalism,
469–474

multiracial pluralism,
321–322

Murray, Charles,
452
,
456–462
,
493–494

Muslims,
19–22

Myrdal, Gunnar,
3
,
350–351
,
354
,
360
,
367
,
506–507

The Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists
(Staples),
420

The Myth of the Negro Past
(Herskovits),
345

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
(Douglass),
183–185

Nation of Islam (NOI),
366

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission),
403–405

National American Woman Suffrage Association,
274

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
301
,
304
,
309
,
334–335
,
340
,
359
,
373–374
,
396

National Association of Colored Women (NACW),
275–276

national identity,
153–156

National Labor Union (NLU),
242–243

National Longitudinal Youth Survey,
436–437

National Organization for Woman (NOW),
415

National Urban League,
373–374

National Welfare Rights Association (NWRO) sit-in,
397–398

Native Americans,
15

Aristotelian philosophy of human hierarchy,
17

as slaveholders,
139–140

Bacon’s Rebellion,
53–54

biblical creation story,
50–51

Buffalo Soldiers killing,
240

Columbus’s arrival in the New World,
25–27

defining race,
36

Jefferson’s views on,
110–111

King Philip’s War,
51–53

Pequot War,
18–19

Pocahontas,
36–37

Puritans and racial intolerance,
39

the benefits of intelligent self-interest,
504

Native Son
(Wright),
347–348

Natural History
(Buffon),
90–91

natural selection,
210–211

“nature versus nurture,”
210

Nazi groups,
430

The Negro Christianized
(Mather),
68–69

The Negro Family in the United States
(Frazier),
342–343

The Negro in American Life
(USIA pamphlet),
360–361

Neville, Henry,
41–42

New Black America,
416–417

New Deal,
337–338
,
344–347
,
358

New Democrats,
450–451
,
454
,
464–465

New England slavery,
22

The New Negro
(Locke),
323

New Negroes,
312–314
,
328–329

New Republicans,
457
,
459–460
,
464–465

New York slave code,
69–70

New York Times
,
216–217

Newton, Huey P.,
397

Newton, Isaac,
45–46
,
60
,
85
,
90–91

Nicaragua,
434

Nigger Heaven
(Van Vechten),
325–328

Niggerati,
324–326
,
345

Nisbet, Richard,
99

Nixon, Richard,
369
,
404
,
409–410
,
414–415
,
418

Nkrumah, Kwame,
370–371

No Child Left Behind Act,
479–480

nonviolent resistance,
167
,
368–369

Norplant,
445–446

Northwest Ordinance,
117

Norton, Eleanor Holmes,
439