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In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among

In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race.

First published in 1977, Portraits of White Racism advanced a distinctively sociological theory of racism. Based on five case histories, it critically assessed