Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (103 page)

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson),
109–111
,
136

Nott, Josiah C.,
180–181
,
184
,
188
,
198
,
209

N-word,
488–489

Obama, Barack,
481–483
,
489–499
,
505

Obama, Michelle,
490

Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind
(Franklin),
80–81

Occupy movement,
500

O’Connor, Sandra Day,
478–479

Of the Nature of Whiteness and Blackness
(Boyle),
45

Old Deal,
337–338

Olympic Games (1936),
340–341

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin),
209–211

Opticks
(Newton),
45–46

Organization of African Unity,
375

O’Sullivan, John,
186

Othello
(Shakespeare),
34–35

The Other America
(Harrington),
370
,
428

Our Brother in Black
(Haywood),
265

Ovington, Mary White,
303

Owens, Jesse,
340–341

Pan-African Congress,
284–285
,
312–313
,
320
,
351

Panic of 1873,
253–254

Park, Robert,
345

“passing” as White,
330
,
341

Patterson, William,
359

Paulding, James Kirke,
141
,
150

Pennsylvania Abolition Society,
98

Pequot War (1637),
18–19

Personal Responsibility Act,
457–458

phenotypic characteristics,
55–56

The Philadelphia Negro
(Du Bois),
283

Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell,
287

Phillips, Wendell,
219–220
,
226
,
234

physical anthropology,
333

Pierce, Franklin,
197–198

Planet of the Apes
(film),
401
,
421–422

The Plantation Negro as a Freeman
(Bruce),
267

plantation novels,
197
,
266–267
,
422–423

Plessy v. Ferguson
,
278
,
280–281

Pocahontas,
36

Poems on Various Subjects
(Wheatley),
98–99

police officers, killings by,
2
,
447–448
,
450
,
489
,
498–499
,
501–502

Polk, James K.,
181
,
186

polygenesis theory,
50–51
,
85–86

as counterweight to Douglass,
184

colonization plan,
156–157

Davis’s assertion of racial inequality,
209

Declaration of Independence,
104–105

Edward Long’s revival,
101

European debate on the origins of humans,
102–103

Jefferson’s neutrality,
135–136

scientific defense of,
188–189

Smith’s attack on Kames,
114–115

Types of Mankind
,
198–200

Voltaire’s writings on,
84–85

Portugal, slave trade in,
22–25
,
27–28
,
49
,
63–64
,
499–500

positive good theory,
183

Postlethwayt, Malachy,
81–82

postracial society,
9
,
497–502

poverty,
358
,
390–392
,
417
,
429

Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr.,
296

Powell, Lewis F.,
427

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation,
218
,
220

USS
Princeton
,
181

The Principall Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation
(Hakluyt),
32–33

Principles of Biology
(Spencer),
210

Prioleau, Peter,
149–150

prison-industrial complex,
8
,
414–416
,
435–437
,
470–471
,
477
,
492
,
495
,
501

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction,
226

Proposition
209
ballot initiative (California),
465–466

prostitution of African women,
42–43

The Prostrate State, South Carolina Under Negro Government
(Pike),
255

Public Enemy,
443

Puerto Ricans,
407–408

Puritans,
15–17
,
19
,
22
,
33
,
47
,
53
,
59–60

Quakers,
48
,
51–52
,
65
,
70
,
87–89
,
121

Quayle, Dan,
451

queer antiracism,
418–419

queer racism,
6
,
280–281
,
402
,
444

race, conceptualizing,
55–56
,
85–86
,
132–134
,
353–355
,
470
,
474–476

Race and Colour Conference,
393–394

race relations,
36
,
143–144
,
153
,
355–356
,
383
,
427
,
499

Race: The Power of an Illusion
(documentary),
478

race-conscious policies,
427

Rachlin, Carl,
385

racial profiling,
281–282

racist ideas,
9–11

ancient foundations of,
18

Andrew Jackson’s presidency accelerating,
169–170

antiracist strategies,
503–504

belittling Blacks,
499–500

Cotton Mather’s exceptionalist doctrine,
48

English intellectuals,
37

eradication of discrimination as reform strategy,
509–510

importance of eradication,
509

individualizing White negativity while generalizing Black negativity,
42–43
,
486–487

justifying the slave trade,
38–39

“negative” Black behavior,
124–125

Obama as the extraordinary Negro,
489–490

of strong Africans and weak North Americans,
27

old English thinkers,
22

“personal responsibility” of Blacks,
457–458

Reconstruction proclamations,
235

writings of Leo Africanus,
28–29

Zurara and the Portuguese slave trade,
22–25
,
28

Radical Reconstruction,
240
,
256

Radical Republicans,
217–218
,
236
,
239
,
241

railroads,
202
,
278–279

Rainbow Coalition,
451–452

Randolph, Edward,
57–58

rape,
41–44

as racial nature,
297–298

Blacks raping White women,
249

Duke University lacrosse team,
486–487

lynching as response to,
274

Nixon on
Roe v. Wade
,
414–415

of White women by White men,
177–178

Radical Reconstruction,
240

Scottsboro Boys,
335

White male gang rapes,
177–178

Reagan, Ronald,
411
,
424–425
,
430–431
,
433–435
,
437–439
,
445

Reconstruction,
226–228
,
235
,
238–239
,
244
,
250–260
,
263–264
,
286–288
,
346