Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (94 page)

4
. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President to the NAACP Centennial Convention,” July 16, 2009,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-naacp-centennial-convention-07162009
; “Obama: Police Who Arrested Professor ‘Acted Stupidly,” CNN, July 23, 2009,
www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/harvard.gates.interview/
; Glenn Beck, “Fox Host Glenn Beck: Obama Is a ‘Racist,’” July 28, 2009,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/fox-host-glenn-beck-obama_n_246310.html
.

5
. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,”
The Atlantic
, June 2014; Janet Mock,
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
(New York: Atria Books, 2014), 258.

6
. Alexander,
The New Jim Crow
, 6–7, 138, 214–222.

7
. “Richard Sherman: Thug Is Now ‘The Accepted Way of Calling Somebody the N-Word,’”
Huffington Post
, January 22, 2014,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/richard-sherman-thug-n-word-press-conference_n_4646871.html
.

8
. “Meet the Woman Who Coined #BlackLivesMatter,”
USA Today
, March 4, 2015,
www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/04/alicia-garza-black-lives-matter/24341593/
.

9
. Garrison,
An Address, Delivered Before the Free People of Color
, 5–6.

10
. Du Bois, “My Evolving Program for Negro Freedom,” 70; Myrdal,
An American Dilemma
, 1:48.

11
. W. E. B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within the Nation,”
Current History
42 (1935): 265–270.

Index

Abbott, Robert,
303

abolitionism and abolitionists

Clinton’s crime bill,
454

colonization plan,
145–146

conditions of free Blacks,
123–124

congressional slavery debate,
122

Davis’s analysis of the criminal justice system,
470–471

Declaration of Independence,
104–105
,
107

Dominican friars in Hispaniola,
26–27

expansion of,
177–178

growing appeal of,
178–179

Harpers Ferry,
207–208

inferiority of Blacks deriving from slavery,
98

Jefferson’s view of,
111–112

Mennonites,
52

Phillis Wheatley’s writings,
93–94
,
100

postal campaign,
177–178

Quakers,
88–89

scientific support for slavery,
182–183

seeds of American colonial rebellion,
99–100

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
,
193–194

uplift suasion,
124–126

uplift suasion strategy,
505

See also
Garrison, William Lloyd

Abu-Jamal, Mumia,
463

acting white achievement theory,
480–481

Adams, Dock,
257

Adams, John,
106
,
118
,
161

affirmative action,
428–429
,
465–466
,
478–479

Africa

Buffon’s races,
85–86

colonization plan,
145–149

Du Bois’s arrival in Ghana,
370–371

Du Bois’s rationale for decolonization,
284–285

Linnaeus’s racial hierarchy,
82–84

migration to the US,
309

trans-Saharan trade routes,
19–20

Walker’s historical racism,
165–166

writings of Leo Africanus,
28–29

African Clarkson Society,
179

Africanus, Leo,
28–29
,
34

The Afrocentric Idea
(Asante),
442

Afrocentric theory,
442–443

Alexander, Michelle,
501

America in Black & White
(Thernstrom and Thernstrom),
468

American Bible Society,
153

American Colonization Society (ACS),
145–146
,
148–150
,
153–154
,
156–157
,
162
,
164
,
174–176
,
269

An American Dilemma
(Myrdal),
3
,
350

American Equal Rights Association (AERA),
241–242
,
245–247

American Federation of Labor (AFL),
330

American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission (AFIC),
228–229

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become
(Thomas),
289–290

American Philosophical Society (APS),
80
,
108
,
112–115
,
135–136

American Revolution,
7
,
90–91
,
98–99
,
102
,
104–108
,
118

The American Schoolbook
(Black),
407

Amos ‘n’ Andy
(television program),
334

Amsterdam, Anthony G.,
442

Angelou, Maya,
415

Anthony, Susan B.,
241–242
,
245–247

Anti-Drug Abuse Act (1986),
435

anti-lynching bill,
341

antiracism

antiracist socialism,
336–342

biological basis of social behavior,
432

Boyle’s scientific racism,
45

challenging assimilationist and segregationist views,
3–4

Civil Rights Act,
384–385

Crash
discourse on race,
483–484

Davis’s analysis of gender, race, class, sexuality and culture,
470

during the Bush administration,
477

eradication of discrimination as reform strategy,
509–510

failed reform strategies,
503–504
,
507

Germantown Petition Against Slavery,
52

Hegel’s writings,
147–148

impact of
The Bell Curve
,
459

importance of emancipation,
165–166

“liberal antiracism,”
460–461

Malcolm X’s assassination,
389–390

Obama on race,
482–483
,
491–494

postracial society,
497–498
,
500

queer antiracism,
418–419

social media and social protests,
502–503

Woolman’s prerevolutionary rhetoric,
89–90

anti-rape struggles,
432–433

apartheid,
359–360
,
435

Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World
(Walker),
165–167

Are Prisons Obsolete
(Davis),
471

Armey, Richard,
457–458

Armstrong, Samuel Chapman,
243

Asante, Molefi Kete,
442

The Assassination of the Black Male Image
(Hutchinson),
454–455

assimilationists,
2–4
,
7

assimilation failing to eliminate discrimination,
338–340

belief in Blacks’ incapacity,
223–224

Christianization of slaves,
46
,
48–49

Civil Rights Act,
385

Clinton’s Rainbow Coalition speech,
452

congressional slavery debate,
121–122

cultural assimilation,
344–347

decolonization of Africa and the Caribbean,
285

defining racism,
4–5

Dominican Republic annexation,
251

Douglass’s response to
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
,
195–196

Du Bois’s critiques of,
336–339
,

Ebonics in education,
472–473

gender racism of Black men,
402–403

Harlem Renaissance rejecting,
324–330

historically Black colleges and universities,
243

impact of
The Bell Curve
,
459

King’s fall from grace,
399

master/slave relationship theory,
33

multiculturalism and,
469

Muslim enslavement of Africans,
20–21

Myrdal’s solution to racism,
350–351

No Child Left Behind Act,
480