"A 1960s American Studies classic for cultural studies at the millennium."--Susan Gilman, University of California, Berkeley. Reprinted without change, Gossett's powerful study ranges from colonial race theory and its European antecedents, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century race pseudoscience, to the racialist dimension of American thought and literature emerging against backgrounds such as Anglo-Saxonism, westward expansion, and xenophobia.

Thomas F. GossettProfessor Emeritus of English, Wake Forest University

"...an impressive intellectual and moral undertaking....Clear and readable without simplifying the issues at hand, it would make for an excellent college textbook as well as a more broadly useful guide to ways theories of race and racism evolved in this country....a courageous work."--MELUS |k No