Portrait of a scientific racist [electronic resource] : Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi / James G. Hollandsworth Jr.
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TextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.Description: xv, 318 p., [4] p. of plates : illSubject(s): - Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955
- Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955 -- Political and social views
- Mississippi. State Tax Commission -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- Plantation owners -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Cotton farmers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Eugenics -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Racism -- United States -- Philosophy
- Eugenics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 305.80092 B 22
- F341.S78 H65 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-307) and index.
Introduction: The American race problem -- An orderly brain -- Essentials of greatness -- No twilight zone -- Food for the human mind -- The business of raising cotton -- Convictions of southern men -- My life work -- I am not a Negrophobist -- Destructive propensity -- Frank, without being offensive -- Severe and discriminating criticism -- A slave to business -- In public duty -- And in private thinking -- Appendix A: Verification of Stone's authorship of editorials in the Greenville times -- Appendix B: Verification of Stone's annotations -- Appendix C: Reconciling Stone's books with his collections -- Appendix D: Should the n in Negro be capitalized? -- Appendix E: Stone's letter to Leroy Percy.
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