Book Description
This anthology is organized aroun the four basic waves of immigration (European, Latin American, Asian, and African).
Customer Reviews:
You took Soc 225, too?.......2004-04-09
I took the same course that the other Chicagoan mentioned, and this was a required text. It does a great job of explaining how and why so many of us got here. While it was a great choice for the course, I'm now tracking it down 8 years later because I want to reread parts of it and pass it on to a friend. Truly valuable to anyone who wants to understand the landscape of this country. Ever wonder why most Filipinos in this country have a mom or an aunt (or both) who are nurses?
Very informative.......2002-09-07
This book seems to be intended as a text for a college course. I didn't take any course associated with this text, but I found the test interesting anyway. What I found most interesting was that this book provided me, finally, with the answer to that unusual question: "Why are there so many Korean stores in African American neighborhoods?" Having spent my teen years in an African American neighborhood, I have seen this first hand. This book says that this trend exists because African American neighborhoods in the inner city often have high crime rates and larger corporate supermarkets are not willing to take the risk of going into these areas. Independent store owners will take that risk, though.
This book also discusses the Mexican-American ("Chicano") community. It references Cesar Chavez and Jose Angel Gutierrez and the Chicano movement and the "La Raza Unida" movement. These are two men who have been important in my life because I spent the early years of my life living at "Colegio Cesar Chavez" ("Cesar Chavez College") in Mt. Angel, Oregon. See: COLEGIO CESAR CHAVEZ by Maldonado.
Many other ethnic groups are discussed as well.
great history lessons.......2000-01-05
this book was assigned to a class i had in college 3 years ago. the class was Racial and Ethnic Groups which was a Sociology class. It gives excellent, well-written essays on various racial/ethnic groups. The book is truly a must have. This book unlike others gives an account of many groups in the U.S.
Book Description
This ground-breaking and provocative book presents new and astonishing interpretations of ancient history, mythology and world religions that will call many established beliefs into question. In Gateway of the Gods, author Craig Hines invites readers to reconsider preconceived notions concerning Biblical theology in light of recent scientific discoveries and inquiries concerning the nature of the universe. This fascinating exploration reveals a number of ideas that have been suppressed and obscured behind layers of symbolism and misguided propaganda for thousands of years... until now. Why is it that so many world cultures share details of an event when fallen angels descended upon the earth and fathered hybrid offspring called the Nephilim? Is it possible that these beings used "gateway" technology housed within pyramids and holy temples to travel between the heavenly and earthly realms? Do the latest advances in theoretical physics lend credibility to the idea that otherworldly beings might reside in dimensions parallel to our own? Do the recorded voices of the "dead," known as Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), indicate that we may be able to communicate with these other realms? Was a secret message embedded within ancient texts that could only be revealed after we have attained the knowledge and technology necessary to understand it? Does this message offer a solution to the approaching environmental disaster that scientists warn will be more devastating to human civilization than any others in recorded history? Drawing from a variety of historical sources and years of meticulous research, the author weaves together a compelling argument involving a range of seemingly disparate topics that when considered together, formulate a radically new narrative concerning the history and destiny of the human race.
Customer Reviews:
Doesn't force ideas, a fantastic read!.......2007-10-11
Doesn't force ideas, a fantastic read!
What I like about this book is that the writer does not force all these new outlandish theories/facts into the readers face. Instead he does says, look at the theories/facts, and make up your own mind.
I am a 3D artist/graphic designer (like the writer) myself and liked his approach to the subject of interstellar travel and weird dimensions, not to mention that angels could have been test tube albinos.
He also gradually leads the reader to the good stuff.
Overall this book is a fantastic accumulation of famous fact based ancient mythology writers, and gives a brilliant overview of the subject, without totally discarding the fiction of some famous Anunnaki writers.
Get this book!!!Awsome
A fresh perspective!.......2007-09-06
This is a well written, informative book. It will really get you to consider all possibilites in regards to our future. I very good read.
Gateway To The Pondering Mind.......2007-07-17
If this book is about 'gateways', one of the passages has to be into the realm of thought. Thinking is definitely challenged in this multi-faceted work, and the author is to be admired for what had to be arduous dedication, to his task. It's most assuredly not a book for one who is satisfied having their beliefs and understanding resting comfortably in a box.
The author is honest to the point of almost being apolgetic for suggesting theory over proven fact. For offering possibilities rather than absolutes. I would have been a bit happier had he allowed himself exit from this redundant humility. I'd say extrapolate with gusto, Mr. Hines. Your devotion to this project gives you that right. Your careful attention to detail and fairness in presenting various sides to these unanswerable questions, lends credence to your theory in and of itself.
Whether every Spiritual premise you suggest rings true to everyone who ponders them or not, you are to be commended for 'ringing' the bell. As for the verbal wake up call on the Coming Storm, I'd say you nailed that one way beyond theory.
Gateways of the Gods is a book for anyone who wants to explore outside of 'forced' dogma and the doctrinal limits regarding the questions that Man first asked with etchings on cave walls.
Susan Haley, Author
RAINY DAY PEOPLE
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A Fascinating Search for Explanation of Ancient (and Modern) Mysteries.......2007-07-17
Craig Hines has taken on the formidable task of finding common meaning and connections between and among many ancient texts and artifacts, from many civilizations, all pointing to the possibility that Mankind has been visited by beings from another dimension or universe in the past---and may be visited again . . . or we may find the way to visit them. He has collected in one book a remarkable mass of information and detail, showing similarities in myths, construction of holy buildings (pyramids in Egypt and in the New World; Ziggurats in other cultures)and in language, even to similar words from vastly different languages. This is not a "fast read," but instead is a book which rewards the careful reader, who will likely want to come back to re-read many passages---and may be motivated to join the search for meaning in this ancient and modern knoweldge.
Gateway of the Gods: A "Must Have" for your Library .......2007-07-16
Gateway of the Gods is one of the most delightfully surprising works that I have ever read which speaks to earthly/human wonderings and spiritual ponderings. It is both well researched and well written, and the Summary at the end of each chapter is extremely helpful.
Whether you are a `fledgling' along your path of light or have traveled quite a distance, you will find that Gateway offers richness on many levels. It filled in a lot of the blanks in my `crossword puzzle of knowledge' that I have been working on throughout my 61 earth years. The author's ability to be non-threatening with new ideas and simply ask, "What if there is another meaning..." pulled me along, and I couldn't put the book down.
Granted, some of the ideas are beyond my scope of knowledge and understanding right now, but isn't that why we read?
After reading Gateway of the Gods
· both the Bible and the Book of Enoch now have an enhanced light;
· Venus (the Evening Star) will never look the same to me again (even though I have to admit that I still make a wish!); and
· The chapter called "The Gateways of the Gods" was breath taking;
o That chapter was (to me) worth the entire price of the book.
There is no way for me to even begin to describe the wealth of information and new ideas in Gateway of the Gods. You need to read it.
HOWEVER, the real `Hook' for you to buy the book is;
· You would never have stumbled onto it (as I did) if you weren't poking around trying to find so-called `hidden/forbidden' truth!! Now admit it!
I had been searching the Internet for fallen angels; Nephilim; giant race after the flood; Watchers; and then, thankfully, Gateway of the Gods popped up.
(You know: When a student is ready, a teacher (in the form of a book this time) appears!) It was money well spent.
Just one question, Mr. Author: Is wine REALLY the nectar of the gods? Please say `Yes'!!
Book Description
A new sourcebook detailing humans, half-breeds, and exotic almost-human races for the D&D game.
Races of Destiny provides Dungeons & Dragons players with an in-depth look at humans, half-orcs, half-elves, and other "almost human" exotic races that populate the D&D world. Often more strange or bizarre than completely distinct races, these half-races showcase the unusual combinations of abilities and cultures possible in a fantasy setting. This sourcebook includes brand new races, new rules, feats, spells, and magic
items attuned to each race. The book contains material for players and DMs alike, including new prestige classes, rules for interaction between races, and a wealth of cultural information.
Customer Reviews:
The D&D world expands again.......2007-03-23
WOTC offers more options for your PCs. The races books are a must have for Living Greyhawk writers and DMs but for everyone else its a nice to have if you play any of the races of destiny but if your more into dwarves and elves than you can skip this book for now.
A few gems, but not worth the money.......2005-01-11
Were there some gems? Certainly. Were those gems worth what I paid? NO. (And, I bought it here with a significant discount). Far too much 'fluff", and hardly any crunch. Tons of fluff on humans and half-races; which is non-campaign specific, and thus nigh worthless to many.
One new race which is complex, came out of nowhere, and is nigh incomrehensible. Why?
I do love the human destiny feats. These were a long time due, IMHO. Some PrC's of interest, a couple spells, and another feat or two. Hmm, that's maybe a chapter.
But, oh WotC, WotC- ye fooled me once now. No longer will I buy without a careful lookie-loo. You need to remember you have a core of loyal customers that will often pre-order and buy any core material you come out with. You can't abuse that trust. I think you did so with this book.
Should you buy it? Well, the gems are there. If you have one guy in your group with deep pockets, and he takes advantage of the deep discount here- then sure, your group should have one to share. But it is hardly a "must buy".
With some work..........2005-01-03
The first section of this book, a discussion of human culture is an interesting and well thought out essay about humans in the fantastic culture of a D&D world. This part of the book shines in being useful to everyone and I was excited because humans are often overlooked for these sorts of manuals.
The second section does the same for Half-elves and Half-orcs but without the excitement or engaging writing of the human section. I think (in my opinion) the trouble here is the brevity of this section and focusing on both races. As primary core rules races, this was disappointing.
Consider the next section, which covers a new human variant race, the illumians. This is the largest section of the book focused on one topic and the work here is excellent, but since this is a variant, and a new addition that is not nearly as important as the core information, why spend the pages they did on all this information when they skimped on so many other things? This for me is the most disappointing aspect of this book. The new race is certainly interesting but it takes away from the books focus, which should be on the expanding of options to established parts of the game.
The following section skims some other races and gives almost no more detail than the monster manual already has and really seemed uninspired.
The feats are interesting and useful for players. The racial themes are expanded and aided by these choices.
The prestige classes are all interesting but suffer from the problem of being too narrow for entry. Each one is so devoted to a specific class or race or place that they must undergo a lot of changes to be useful to most campaigns. I will be using several, but only with considerable adaptation.
The spells generate some interesting ideas for city themed play, but barbaric humans are almost entirely overlooked here (as in the rest of the book).
Finally, the section on cities. This added almost nothing to the worth of the book. I appreciate DM'ing advice but this information rehashed what tons of other books have already done (as well as a free web enhancement right on the Wizard's site).
Overall, I feel the book is worth buying, and as usual, you can tell the authors really enjoy their work and care about what they are doing. I don't really agree with all the choices as being the best for their consumers, but the quality of what they do produce is excellent.
70% great, 30% unusable for newbies, 50-50 for older gamers .......2004-12-30
Races of Destiny is the second book in the series, which started with Races of Stone, and which will be continued by Races of the Wild. This book presents humans, along with half-orcs and half-elves, and also a brand new race, the illumians.
For most players and DMs the chapter on humans, half-elves and half-orcs will not have too much to offer (this is the weak point of the book). However, those who are new to the D&D game, and especially young gamers will find it interesting and useful.
The next chapters offer more for players and DMs alike. The new race, the illumians are really interesting, and I just know that most players will create at least one illumian character to find out the unique versatility of the race.
The chapter on other races is a matter of taste, if you like exotic races, you will like it, if you do not like them, you will find it unuseful.
Prestige classes, new feats and spells are pretty good, and useful. Together with the chapter on illumians, these chapters will be the only ones that older gamers will use.
The chapter on medieval fantasy urbane settings is mostly for new DMs, but it can give new ideas even for veteran DMs. One should never be too old to learn.
Overall, this book is more useful for new gamers, but old gamers will also find interesting things among the pages. It is very difficult to write a fantasy handbook that addresses new and old gamers alike, and this book is a good example of a half-success.
look hard before you buy.......2004-12-26
Races of Destiny is the newest offering from WOC. It contains information on playing humans, half orcs and elves, a new race of humans the llumians and information on new feats,spells and prestige classes.
The first 30+ pages are on the humans. I was expecting more than a primer on humans, such things like that they play games and have a larger variety of troops than some of the other races. I was looking for more cultural things like some of the items from the old al qadim setting like not sitting in front of someone with your soles of your feet facing your host, or not eating with your left hand. There was none of that. The next 15 or so pages deals with the half orcs and half elves and their outlooks and physicology.
The Illumians are the next 70 or so pages and actually they look somewhat interesting. They are humans with more advantages. They have sigils which gives them more abilities or protections or something. If you are looking for something new for your campaign they might do the trick for you.
The feats that are listed are primarly focused to the races and some looked interesting like roof stride which allowed you to move along roofs at a higher rate of speed.
The spells looked interesting at first but didnt seem as well thought out after thinking about it. There are insignia spells which could be used for city guards or milita. The insignia spells are simple spells with the ability to be cast on multiple people at the same time. There is a spell that gives +1ac bonus plus a +1 fort save. The problem is that the spells only last minutes per level, not some that I would see would be particulary useful in a search pattern. Another spell creates a mazelike enviroment for some body invading the city to confuse and split them.
The prestige classes arent very exciting, of them the urban soul looked somewhat interesting and I might use it with several changes.
The most disappointing part was the city section at the end, again I was expecting more than was delivered. It was mostly a series of tables that could either be random or picked. I was again looking for more color that could be used in making each city more unique.
There is also a section on some of the other races such as assimars, teiflings, half-ogres.
This book in my opinion is very weak, the illumians are the most interesting part of the book. There are a couple of feats and some spells that I would use but for you folks take a long look before you buy this
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Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1987
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ironic title - .......2006-07-04
There is an ironic aspect to this book and its title. Written in 1988, it decries what it calls lost opportunities in avoiding or minimising the arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. Granted, Morris raised good points and many others at the time shared his concern. But unbeknownst to the author, the Soviet Union was on its last legs. The Cold War is generally considered to have ended a year later, in 89, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and East Germany.
In retrospect, the author did raise valid concerns. But for all the failings in US foreign policy, the arms race was a major factor in bankrupting the Soviet Union. While the US did take on a large debt burden in its military expenditures, we now know that it had a far stronger economy. Though this was by no means clear at the time.
Book Description
American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850.
The author deftly chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes in the blood. He traces how this ideology shifted from the more benign views of the Founding Fathers, which embraced ideas of progress and the spread of republican institutions for all. He finds linkages between the new, racialist ideology in America and the rising European ideas of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, and scientific ideologies of the early nineteenth century. Most importantly, however, Horsman demonstrates that it was the merging of the Anglo-Saxon rhetoric with the experience of Americans conquering a continent that created a racialist philosophy. Two generations before the "new" immigrants began arriving in the late nineteenth century, Americans, in contact with blacks, Indians, and Mexicans, became vociferous racialists.
In sum, even before the Civil War, Americans had decided that peoples of large parts of this continent were incapable of creating or sharing in efficient, prosperous, democratic governments, and that American Anglo-Saxons could achieve unprecedented prosperity and power by the outward thrust of their racialism and commercial penetration of other lands. The comparatively benevolent view of the Founders of the Republic had turned into the quite malevolent ideology that other peoples could not be "regenerated" through the spread of free institutions.
Customer Reviews:
comrehensive - well-researched.......1998-08-24
MY rofessor assigned this book in our nationalism class at UCLA- IT is comrehensive and well-researched. Traces the develoment of anglo-saxonism as a nationalist identity across continents.
Book Description
The Cultivation of Whiteness is an award-winning history of scientific ideas about race and place in Australia from the time of the first European settlement through World War II. Chronicling the extensive use of biological theories and practices in the construction and âprotectionâ of whiteness, Warwick Anderson describes how a displaced âBritishnessâ (or whiteness) was defined by scientists and doctors in relation to a harsh, strange environment and in opposition to other races. He also provides the first account of extensive scientific experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on poor whites in tropical Australia and on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.
â[Anderson] writes with passion, wit, and panache, and the principal virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness are the old-fashioned ones of thoroughness, accuracy, and impeccable documentation. . . . [His] sensitive study is a model of how contentious historical issues can be confronted.ââW. F. Bynum, Times Literary Supplement
âOne of the virtues of The Cultivation of Whiteness is that it brings together aspects of Australian life and history that are now more often separatedârace and environment, blood and soil, medicine and geography, tropical science and urban health, biological thought and national policy, Aboriginality and immigration, the body and the mind. The result is a rich and subtle history of ideas that is both intellectual and organic, and that vividly evokes past states of mind and their lingering, haunting power.ââTom Griffiths, Sydney Morning Herald
Customer Reviews:
A revealing survey of science and racial destiny.......2003-08-08
The Cultivation Of Whiteness: Science, Health, And Racial Destiny in Australia is a region-specific, college-level collection which is strong in anthropology and which Australian or multicultural studies will find to be a revealing survey of science and racial destiny. In 19th century Australia doctors were the main commentators on race and biological differences - this examines their perceptions of racism and differences between whites and other cultures, using the foundation of science and medicine as a basis for surveying and even experimenting upon other peoples. An eye-opening set of revelations.
Book Description
In our continuing exploration of how creation works, we talk to Creator of Pure Feelings and Thoughts, the Liquid Domain, the Double-Diamond Portal and other 93% of the Explorer Race. We revisit the Friends of the Creator to discuss their origin and how they see the beyond; we finally reach the roots of the Explorer Race (us!) and find we are from a different source than our Creator and have a different goal; and we end up talking to All That Is!
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A book about infinity , Creations and Creators.......2007-08-07
This book is one of the best channeling book when it comes to spiritual cosmology and metaphysics and book which gives the glimpse to infinite nature of creators and its creations.. According to this book there are almost infinite number creations and creator. This books just channels some of these few creators from various creations .Most of the channeling books discusses with various beings ,departed people, angels , spirits ,ET, ascended masters , NDE ,within this creation only and rarely touch the lot of other creators and creations . so even though from other channeled books one can get lot of information about various dimension/creation/nature of soul/after life one doesnot go beyond this creator.
But in this book super channel Robert goes much much beyond the normal channeling books and channels directly the various creators
After reading this book one knows the creator(s)(God) has no end and it goes far above expanding bigger and bigger creations. There are trillions of creator and creations and much much unknown . compared to Infinity our own universe is extremely small and tiny.
The journey of us ( humanity) doesn't end with in this creator but it is meant for exploring various creations of trillions, quadrillions of all creators and creations. This book gives lot of hope that our true nature is infinite and we are (our future) not limited to just our creator but goes on and beyond.... touching infinity.
A circle of creation contains trillions of creations/Universes ( some of the creation contains many dimensions/levels), there are several billions/trillions circle of creations in a realm, and there are extremely large number of realms which can't be put into human experience also. So one can get idea , a sense of appreciation and wonder about infinity.
So from the explorer series books our ultimate goal ( worthy of any being) is to experience All the beings , all the creators & creation, all circle of creations, all realms and possible unknown infinity in various permutations and combinations and all the thoughts , emotions, feelings , various creation , all possible variations of the creators if any dimensions to it , every angle , every perception.........in short the scope of our potential for our future experience and who one can become is truly infinite.
This books also discusses the role of humanity ( explorer race) in expanding this creation and once this experiment is over many creation will expand many times due to various insights , learning generated throughout human history. Role of negativity/suffering for growth of universe
Reincarnation we are going are not for some punishment or balance the karma but actually to bring the discovery/many original ideas and to cause growth to the creation. This book give the glimpse to infinity, the origin of human race (explorer race) , from which creation we came from , our roots of explorer race,
The books channels information from the Master ( creators) of plasmic energy, maybe , master of feelings, Synchronizer of Physical Reality and Dimensions Master of Frequencies and Octaves, Master of imaginations etc these are the consultants who helped our creator to establish the creation and this explorer . they discuss about their origin and how they are created , What is their role in human explorer race experiment , Our probable future and several questions which author (Robert Shapiro) has asked to them
This books goes to our roots of explorer race and gets channeling from these 3 roots of explorer race. Then it goes to the creator ( Temple) of these roots, and then to being who inspired fragmentation of these root.
One require atleast 2 readings of this book to digests many biggest truths....also one finds new truths, insights, new reveleations at each reading of books . as these books are very advanced they also expand the Spiritual IQ of the person who reads it .
Books also it is recommended to read it sequentially as next chapter knowledge/channeled information is build upon previous chapters.
All these books goes byond 5 star ratings which amazon has. A must buy especially for those who want to expand their knowledge frontiers to byond limits.
I also strongly recommend to read following Explorer Race Series. It is the greatest fulfillment and joy to read explorer series books
1)The Creators and Friends Mechanics of Creation
2)The Explorer Race: Council of Creators
3)Explorer Race and Particle Personalities
4)ET Visitors Speak
5)Explorer Race
Generally one chapter is devoted for one creator or being and the Author ( Robert) ask various questions to this creator and channeled answer is written down.
Table of content taken from the publisher "Light technology publications" website . the right side denotes page number of the book.
Contents-EXPLORER RACE and BEYOND
1 Creator of Pure Feelings and Thoughts, One Circle of Creation 1
Seed of the Explorer Race * * * * * * 2
My Origin * * * * * 3
How I Accelerated the Process * * * * * * * * * * * * 4
Youthful Enthusiasm Enabled You to Choose Suffering* * * * * * 5
Becoming Responsible by Managing Creation* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 5
Your Ignorance and Discovery Enabled by My Shielding* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 6
After the Quantum Leap, Chaos Elsewhere * * 6
Answering the Call for Volunteers * * * * * * * * * 7
You Existed Before I Did, in Pure Liquidity * * 7
Your Eventual Ability to Uncreate; Your Root of Youthful Enthusiasm* * * * 8
My Internal Structure* * * * * * * * * * 9
Discomfort: Culling It from a Creator's Rejects* * * * * * * * * * * * 10
Pure Ecstasy, My Source; Other Levels * * * * 10
The Future of My Creations, How I Interact with Them * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 11
My Perception of Some Other Beings* * * * * * 12
Coming into Me from Beyond Me * * * * * * * * 13
My Appearance* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 14
My Connection to the Centers of Pure Feeling; How I See My Job * * * * * * 14
Connections with My Source * * * * * * * * * * * * 15
Consultants in Your and My Creation * * * * * 16
Your Lineage* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 16
2 The Liquid Domain 19
Purity's Map * * 19
Versions of Water You Experienced When You Passed through Me* * * * * 21
Liquid Minerals Such as Diamond, Gold and Salt * * * * * * * * * 22
Your Three and a Half Minutes within Me* * 23
Using Your Experience As Groups of Nine * 23
93% of Explorer Race Not on Earth* * * * * * * 24
How I Perform for Beings * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 24
How Much You're Influenced by Your Guides * * * * * * * * * * * * 25
My Appearance* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 26
My First Awareness * * * * * * * * * * 26
Your Initial Size and Mine * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 27
The Being I'm Inside Of* * * * * * * 28
Beings Who Need My Help (Functional Mastery) * * * * * * * * * 29
Reacting to Needs * * * * * * * * * * * 30
The Limit of My Knowledge and Yours * * * * 30
Expressing and Suppressing Emotion Affects How Much You Can Feel * 32
Other Beings Who Have Come through Me * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 33
Tarantulas and Sting Rays, Masters of Profound Thought * * * * * * * * * * * * * 34
Provided for Your Education, but You Must Connect * * * * * * 35
Eye and I* * * * * 36
My Perspective of the Explorer Race Experiment
and the Origin of the Idea of Suffering * * * 37
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You Are Part of All You Are Within, and Have Its Capacities* * * * * * * * * * * 38
3 The Double-Diamond Portal 41
The Temporary Foundational Elements of the Explorer Race Personality 42
The Diamond Shape * * * * * * * * * 42
Answering the Call to Become the Explorer Race * * * * * * * * * * 43
What You Were Before * * * * * * * 44
Creator Inspired by One Alternative Benevolent Future* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 45
The Six Core Qualities--from the Future * * 46
Your Receiving the Call and Converging toward Here * * * * * * 47
Encouragement to Persevere* * * * * * * * * * * * * 48
Life As a Recycler before the Explorer Race* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 49
An Infinite History * * * * * * * * * * * 50
The Future of the Explorer Race* * * * * * * * * * 51
Those Who Surround the Explorer Race * * * 52
The Call and the Response * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 53
What I Can See from Here * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 54
Concerning the Potential Negative Future Anomaly* * * * * * * * 55
The Absent Members of the Explorer Race * 56
Merging the Members into One Personality * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 57
Zoosh's and My View of Your Future* * * * * * 58
Pushing (Masculine) vs. Being Pulled (Feminine) * * * * * * * * * 58
Nonphysical Visitors--the Gallery--to These Sessions * * * * * 59
Dreams As Events* * * * * * * * * * * * 59
My View of What You Are Doing * * * * * * * * * 61
4 About the Other 93% of the Explorer Race 63
Where the 93% Is Now Located* * * * * * * * * * 64
The 93% Had Past Simple Lives Here; You Here Now
Have Complex Lives Requiring Deep Soul Wisdom * * * * * * 65
The Present Complex Civilization * * * * * * * * 67
Who Is Not the Explorer Race* * * * * * * * * * * * 68
Your Relationship to the Pleiadians * * * * * * * 69
Explorer Race Flow Chart * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 70
A Period of Space Exploration, Then Becoming a United Nations Planet* 72
What's Next for Those Here Now * * * * * * * * 72
The Gold-Crystal Library: A Place You Might Go Next * * * * * 73
Who Makes Up the Rest of the 7%?* * * * * * * 74
The Current Challenge: The Tough Forty Years * * * * * * * * * * * 75
Your Responsibility for Daydreams and Fantasies * * * * * * * * * 76
Homework to Learn How Your Fantasizing Might Limit Your Reality * * * 76
Three More Places You Might Go after This Life* * * * * * * * * * * 77
The Danger of "Us versus Them" * * * * * * * * * 79
5 Synchronizer of Physical Reality and Dimensions 83
The 7% of the Explorer Race * * * * * * * * * * * * 83
Synchronizer of Physical Reality and Dimensions* * * * * * * * * * 85
My Experience in Cycling Light Color Tones * * * * * * * * * * * * * 85
When Things Changed for Me and I Left Home* * * * * * * * * * * 86
About That Home Being/Place * * * * * * * * * * * 87
My Experiences before Meeting Your Creator* * * * * * * * * * * * * 88
Recognizing the Presence of Explorer Race Beings* * * * * * * * * 90
What I Might Do after This Is Over * * * * * * * 91
Another of My Kind * * * * * * * * * * 92
viii EXPLORER RACE and BEYOND
When Explorer Race Is Through Here* * * * * 92
About the Dimensions * * * * * * * * 94
Personality in the Different Dimensions* * * * 95
Third and Fourth Dimensions Merging * * * * 96
Letting Go of Why * * * * * * * * * * * 97
How Long to 3.51? * * * * * * * * * * 97
6 The Master of Maybe 103
The Fragmentation of That Which Is, Initiating My Birth * * * * * * * * * * * * 103
My Journey After Separating from Might * * 104
Traveling in Creations Near Where Yours Would Be * * * * * * 104
The Curious Civilization; Permeating Nearby Orbs with Maybe * * * * * * * 105
Absorbing Your Orb's Energies, Meeting Your Creator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 107
Circles of Creation; Physiological Similarities of Humanoids * * * * * * * * * 107
Your Brain Is in Use to Create Your Reality* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 108
What Might Is Doing Now * * * * * * * * * * * * * 109
Learning to Let Go Like Blooming Flowers* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 110
About the Ant Species and Their Source Beings * * * * * * * * * * 110
The Future Study of Animal Philosophies * 112
The Human Brain (Understood When Science and Religion Marry)
and Its History * * * * * * * * * * * 113
Where I've Functioned in This Creation * * 115
My Future; What I've Learned Here, Ways I've Helped * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 115
Growth, an Absolute; Creations Nurtured by Their Specific Focus* * * * * 116
Humanoids Created to Stimulate Growth * 117
7 Master of Frequencies and Octaves 121
My Origin * * * 121
My Simultaneous Experience of All Dimensions* * * * * * * * * * 123
Meeting Your Creator * * * * * * * 124
Aspects of Beings and Dimensions Becoming Compatible * * * * * * * * * * * 125
The Subconscious and the Unconscious * * 125
Concurrent Dimensions of This Room * * * 126
How I Maintain and Separate the Dimensions * * * * * * * * * * * 127
Changing Dimensions Now As a Precursor
to the Ultimate Expansion; Finding the Automatic Pulse * * * * * * * * * * * 128
The Centrifuge/Pinwheel Separator * * * * * * 129
Learning to Be Aware of Multidimensions* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 131
8 Spirit of Youthful Enthusiasm (Junior) and Master of Imagination 133
The Current Expansion: A Preparation for the Ten-Times Expansion * * 133
The Midpoint of 3.5 and the Need to Move Slowly * * * * * * * 134
The Future Treatment of Criminals, Adopted from Spaceships* * * * * * * * 135
How My Expansion Affects Me Now * * * * * 136
My Trinary Part with the Creator and Where I First Became Aware * * * * 136
Your Feeling Here Is Survivability * * * * * * * 137
The Place Where Personality Begins--beyond All Circles of Creation * * 139
How the Energy Becomes Differentiated into Personality Types* * * * * * * 140
Using Imagination to Create Dynamic Magic * * * * * * * * * * * * 141
A Sirian Method to Solve Problems * * * * * * 141
Another Way to Solve Radiation Problems * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 142
My View of Your Beginnings* * * * * * * * * * * * 143
Basic Laws of Creationism: Faith and Response * * * * * * * * * * 145
Homework to Learn Problem-Solving * * * * 146
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9 Zoosh 149
The Origin of the Components of My Personality * * * * * * * * 149
The Paradoxical Realm * * * * * * 150
Tripolar Opposite: Continuous Reversals * 151
Difficult to See an Individual's Future Because You're Changing
the Past and Future* * * * * * * * 152
Making Mistakes Necessary for Expansion of All Existence * * * * * * * * * * 153
Your Creator Put on Probation--and Possible Uncreation * * * * * * * * * * * 154
Creator's Leap of Faith * * * * * * 154
You're 87% Likely to Make It * * * * * * * * * * * 155
Paradoxical Realm: Source of Components of All Beings,
Preparing Them for Quantum Mastery* * 155
My Progenitor* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 156
Inverse Reality and the Paradoxical Realm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 156
What Precedes the Paradoxical Realm? * * * 157
History Lessons on Your Future; Quantum Mastery * * * * * * 158
Seeking Beings to Talk To* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 160
My Two Backup Parts (Just in Case) * * * * * 160
The Antichrist; the 360 Versions of Me * * * 161
The Risk * * * * 162
About the Component Parts * * * * * * * * * * * * 162
The Source of Inspiration * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 164
Speculation about Other Gates and Realms * * * * * * * * * * * * * 165
10 The Master of Feeling 167
Understanding the Origin of a Person's Feelings * * * * * * * * * 168
Training Angelics * * * * * * * * * * * 168
Angelics Transform Discomforts * * * * * * * * 169
Angels Must First Be Personal Guides; 8-12% of Earth Population
Have Been Guides* * * * * * * * * 170
Angelics Train Guides and Become Material Masters * * * * * * 170
An Example of Angelic Influence * * * * * * * * 171
Angelics Becoming Spiritual and Material Masters: Jesus and Mary
of the Magdalene* * * * * * * * * * 172
Other Angelics in Earth Lives * * * * * * * * * * * 173
Polynesian Wisdom and Water, the Most Sacred Element * * * * * * * * * * * 174
Guides Teach Other Beings about the Challenges of a Polarized World 175
Angelics to Help the 3.0-Earth Sirians, Who Will Become
Masters of Discomfort and Communication and Re-create Their Past 175
Following the Feeling Track Backward or to the Fulfillment of Any Need
* * * * * * * * * * 176
Pleiades, a Place That Reveres Childhood * 177
Water Births * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 177
You and Pleiadians Were Once One People;
Some Pleiadians Precede Creator * * * * * * 178
Other Cultures That Precede Creator* * * * * 179
The Sumerian-Pleiadian Explorer Race Connection
in Expressions of the Unknown Mystical* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 179
Constant Enigmas to Solve; Exposure to Symbols * * * * * * * * 180
Homework with Symbols * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 181
My Origin and Early Experiences* * * * * * * * 182
Meeting Your Creator * * * * * * * 182
x EXPLORER RACE and BEYOND
My Origin of Focus and Up the Line * * * * * 183
My Creator, Who Releases Seeds * * * * * * * * 183
The Paradoxical Realm * * * * * * 184
Beyond the Paradoxical Realm * * * * * * * * * * 185
The Three-Layered Crystal * * * * * * * * * * * * * 185
Help in Uncreating the Past, Then Recycling It * * * * * * * * * * 186
The Danger of a Resonant Echo; Absorbing All Past Energy * * * * * * * * * * 187
The Mystical Realm * * * * * * * * * 188
Other Portals, Other Realms * * * * * * * * * * * * 188
Meeting and Sharing with Others* * * * * * * * 190
11 The Master of Plasmic Energy 193
Gold Light * * 194
The Rising Grid and Ley Lines * * * * * * * * * * 195
Expanded Grid Will Hold in Discomfort* * 196
Looking Beyond the Paradoxical Realm
to the Origin of Awareness of Life* * * * * * 197
The Next Two Places: Where Motion Happens and a Place of Emergence
* * * * * * * * * * 199
Next: The Building Blocks of Plasma * * * * * 199
The Crystal * * 200
The Mystical Realm; Personal Choice * * * * 201
Choice of Realm through One's Propensity or by One's Creator * * * * * * 202
The Limits of the Crystal's Authority * * * * * 203
The Shape of the Symmetrical Realms * * * * 204
The Place Where Personalities Are Generated* * * * * * * * * * * * 205
The Creator and the Explorer Race * * * * * * 206
Tracing Lineages of Members of the Explorer Race * * * * * * * 207
12 The Master of Discomfort 209
Assisting the Pleiadians * * * * * * 209
When Pleiadians Meet Competitive Sports and Communications * * * * * 210
The Reverberation Effect Back to One's Origin* * * * * * * * * * * 211
The Trill of Aha! * * * * * * * * * * * * 211
My Continuing Connection to My Original Group Awareness * * * * * * * * 212
Achieving Other Masteries: Earth Wars and a Volcano * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 212
My Orion Anarchist Experience * * * * * * * * * 213
My Future * * * 214
A Demonstration of the Feeling of the Inverse Universe * * * * * * * * * * * * * 215
We Travel Everywhere, Adding Our Experience to Our Native Land* * * 215
The Paradoxical Realm * * * * * * 216
The Spinning Crystal * * * * * * * * 217
Feeling Rejected at Birth * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 218
Traveling from the Native Land * * * * * * * * * 219
My Zeta Reticuli Experience * * * * * * * * * * * * 220
Their Addiction to Sensation * * * * * * * * * * * 221
The Zetas' Solution to Violence * * * * * * * * * 222
Your Connection to the Zetas* * * * * * * * * * * 223
Your Own Interaction with Your Futures * 225
Your Total Merging in Ninth Dimension * * 225
My Focus Tonight Different from Our Last Talks* * * * * * * * * 226
Back When You Arrived on the Scene * * * * 226
What You Looked Like As You Arrived * * * 227
Xi
13 The Story-Gathering Root Being
from the Library of Light/Knowledge 231
My Earliest Recollections* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 231
My Vision of Your Creator * * * * * * * * * * * * * 232
Traveling through Space Telling Stories * * 233
Joining the Other Seed Beings and Meeting Your Creator * * * * * * * * * * * * 233
This Is the Third Replay * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 234
The Calling * * 235
Locating My Journey on Your Map * * * * * * 235
After Joining Your Creator* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 235
Inside Your Creator * * * * * * * * * 236
Our Birth from Creator, Then Expanding * 237
How My Consciousness Currently Operates* * * * * * * * * * * * * 238
The Speed of My Journey * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 239
A Map * * * * * * 240
Feeling Individuality and Focusing in Thought * * * * * * * * * * 241
This Teaching and Learning Realm,
Where Consequences Must Be Resolved * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 242
The Council Stepped In to Help Ten Lifetimes Ago * * * * * * * 243
The Loop of Time and a Different Petition * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 244
Daughter of God, Son of God * * * * * * * * * * * 244
Where the Idea of Experiencing Suffering Came From * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 246
After the Mission of Discovery Ends * * * * * 246
My Connections to the Other Two Roots * 247
14 The Root Who Fragmented from a Living Temple 251
My Origin: A Living Temple * * * * * * * * * * * * 251
The Temple's Inspiration to Self-Destruct and Travel* * * * * * 252
Becoming Aware of My Companion, Then Linking Up * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 253
The Sudden Stop and the Long Wait* * * * * 254
The Abrupt Resumption of Our Journey; My Companion and I
Separately Heading for the Earth Space in 12D * * * * * * * * * 255
The Three Roots of the Explorer Race * * * * 256
The Closers of the Explorer Race Experience * * * * * * * * * * * * 257
The New Generation and Their Pyramid Structures* * * * * * * 257
The Five-Minute Planetary Evacuation When Earth Moved from Sirius * 258
The Martians' Change of Mind * * * * * * * * * * 259
The Next Generation Discovers Itself at the Pyramids * * * * * 262
Physical Transformation * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 262
Identifying One of Us As Your Source * * * * 264
Our Feelings about the Explorer Race Scenario and Speeding It Up * * * 265
When Each Root Became Committed * * * * 267
Atlantis, When Most of the First Root's Beings Left * * * * * * * 268
How the Early Civilizations Established the Needed Frameworks * * * * * 268
The Introduction of Birth and Death to Create Urgency and Purpose * * 270
The Application of Ignorance * * * * * * * * * * * 271
My Fragments* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 272
15 The First Root Returns 275
The Light Library of All Knowledge * * * * * * 275
The Pleiadian Child Who Dreamed Certain Symbols* * * * * * 276
Placing Root Origins on the Map * * * * * * * * 277
Your Creator's Two False Runs * * * * * * * * * 278
xii EXPLORER RACE and BEYOND
We Were Consultants First, Then Became the Explorer Race * * * * * * * * * 280
Having No Manual* * * * * * * * * * 281
Fragmenting: Easy for Me, Harder for the Other Two * * * * * 281
Stories/Epics and Story-Gathering * * * * * * * 282
My Contribution: Stories * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 284
My Fragments More Imaginative, 99% Waiting for the Leap* * * * * * * * * * 286
Merging the Three Roots and Clicking into Fourth Dimension * * * * * * * 287
How Creator Made the Request for Us to Participate* * * * * * 288
Our Merging, Compressing, Expanding, Fragmenting,
Then Incarnating * * * * * * * * * 288
Spirit Guides; Keeping You in the Experimental Group Lineage* * * * * * * 289
My State When I Split from Creator* * * * * * 290
Non-Explorer Race Lives* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 292
A Story * * * * * 293
16 Root Three, Companion of the Second Root 295
The Realms * * 295
The Fragmented Temple * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 296
The Identity of the Temple, Its Connection to You* * * * * * * * 296
The Temple's Assignment * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 297
Why You Need to Acquire Knowledge and Wisdom * * * * * * 299
The Catalyst for Growth * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 299
The Future of Explorer Race and Temple * 300
How I and My Companion Differed* * * * * * 302
Earth Individuals' Connections to the Different Roots* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 302
The Difference between Me and My Partner:
Companionable and Individualistic * * * * 303
Pairings and Sex Divisions * * * * * * * * * * * * * 304
The Ribbon of Inspiration from Your Future Being * * * * * * * 305
What I've Learned and How I Communicate * * * * * * * * * * * * 307
What a Root Does * * * * * * * * * * 308
The Next Few Years* * * * * * * * * 308
Your Connection with Other Planetary Beings * * * * * * * * * * * 309
17 The Temple of Knowledge & the Giver of Inspiration 313
Temple Seeds Can Reproduce the Temple * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 314
Dimensions Not Yet Accessible to Me * * * * 314
Another Realm * * * * * * * * * * * * * 315
My Early Existence* * * * * * * * * * 316
The Two Seeds That Became the Roots of Explorer Race * * * * * * * * * * * * 316
The Other Seeds* * * * * * * * * * * * 317
My First Awareness and My Accumulation of New Knowledge/Wisdom
* * * * * * * * * * 317
A Temple As a Place of Culture and That Expands One's IQ . . . * * * * * * 318
. . . and Accelerates a Soul's Evolution * * * * 318
How People Experience the Temple * * * * * 319
Your Seeds' Wisdom-Gathering Currently on Hold * * * * * * * 320
How I Gather Wisdom * * * * * * 321
The Way I See What Is * * * * * * 322
The Ultimate Creator Seems to Be Us * * * * 323
I Give Inspiration to All, Including Your Creator * * * * * * * * * 324
You Requested This Expansion in an Alternate Future * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 325
The Individual Who Became the Temple* * 325
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A Temple's Function * * * * * * * * 326
18 The Voice Historian, Who Provided the First Root 329
The Being Who Desired Expansion * * * * * * 329
Expansion Based on Tension, a Worthwhile Risk Based
on Vast Potential Rewards * * * * * * * * * * * * 330
Explorer Race Experiment: Souls Volunteering
for Tension Anchored in Your Spiritual Identity * * * * * * * * 331
After Your Snap-Back, Euphoria, Sleepiness Forgetting of War, etc. * * * * 332
The Burning Snap-Back Fuse Will Travel to Rest of Explorer Race* * * * * 333
Final Click into Fourth Dimension, Then Your True Purpose Revealed* 334
My Constant Testing Would Keep the Experiment on Track * * * * * * * * * 334
A Portion of Me Joined the Experiment * * * 336
My Parent and My First Memories * * * * * * * 337
How I Deal with Incoming Material * * * * * * 337
Archetypes * * 339
Stories and Myths Were Universally Seeded by the Explorer Race* * * * * 340
I'm on the Creator/Storyteller Net * * * * * * * 341
Where I Exist * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 342
About All That Is, My Grandparent * * * * * * 342
19 Creator of All That Is 345
A Recent Creation--a Passage to Beyond * 345
Cords and Peers* * * * * * * * * * * * 346
My First Awareness, Identity* * * * * * * * * * * * 347
Your Creator's (and 99 Others') Connection to Me * * * * * * * 347
How Creation Works* * * * * * * * 348
The Next Place * * * * * * * * * * * * * 349
Creating All That Is * * * * * * * * * 350
Prototypes for Realms * * * * * * * 351
The Paradoxical Realm and the Crystal Nearby * * * * * * * * * * 352
How the Crystal Functions * * * * * * * * * * * * * 352
Explorer Race's Gift: To Re-create Your Reality* * * * * * * * * * * 353
When Elsewhere, You Won't Remember Here * * * * * * * * * * * 354
Shifting from Third to Fourth Dimension * 355
Creator Status* * * * * * * * * * * * * * 355
Eden Planets* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 356
The Initial Inspiration--from a Need* * * * * 356
How Creator's Friends Were Drawn * * * * * 357
I Left before Your Creator Was Birthed * * * 358
Being without Your Teacher * * * * * * * * * * * * 359
Resolve Your Consequences within a Lifetime * * * * * * * * * * * 360*
Book Description
A study of issues of race in 19th century America.
Customer Reviews:
Seminal work on American race history.......2003-12-05
George Fredrickson's book, "The Black Image in the White Mind," is an intellectual history dealing with the rise of formalized racial ideologies in nineteenth century America. The author argues that these anti-black intellectual concepts, far from forming in a vacuum, arose in concert with other significant trends occurring in the American political, economic, and social arena. Moreover, Fredrickson points out the significant role the American North, an area not usually associated with overt racism, played in this emotionally charged discourse. Many of the ideas articulated in the North reinforced as often as they countered the extremely hostile invective circulating in the South. Most importantly, "The Black Image in the White Mind" stresses the underlying themes that all of these theories, regardless of northern or southern orientation, shared between 1817 and 1914: the author convincingly avers that every racial hypothesis assumed the idea of black inferiority, that blacks differed significantly from whites "physically, intellectually, and temperamentally," that animosity between whites and blacks was inevitable, saw miscegenation as a sublime evil, and viewed a biracial society as an impossibility best remedied by the outright removal of African-Americans from United States territory or through various forms of subordination to the dominant white society. It is not surprising this book is still a standard assignment in graduate seminars about race history.
Fredrickson begins his analysis with the emergence of the colonization movement in the 1820s and 1830s and concludes with the plight of the American black under the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. Along the way, the author discusses in detail various racial ideas: scientific racism, romantic racialism, recurring incarnations of Southern white paternalism, white nationalism, Negrophobia, and Accommodationist racism. In the American South, Fredrickson argues that a major tenet of racialist thought was Herrenvolk democracy, or a type of political theory that gave the dominant white population in the South all the fruits of democracy while denying blacks equivalent rights. Herrenvolk democracy informed much of the racial thought in this region during the nineteenth century because it created a hierarchical biracial system justified by slavery and later segregation systems. "The Black Image in the White Mind" proves that white racist thought in the nineteenth century was never a constant, monolithic ideology but a set of basic assumptions capable of adjusting to changing economic, political, or religious circumstances in the larger society. Just when one branch of racialist thought died down, another sprang up in an entirely different place and time with just as much virulence as the previous manifestation.
Perhaps the most compelling argument in Fredrickson's book is his formulation of romantic racialism. This idea, which posited that blacks were docile, childlike creatures whose attributes allowed them to attain a level of Christianity unavailable to "naturally aggressive" Caucasians, had great appeal among abolitionists in the North who believed slavery was wrong on religious grounds. Moreover, romantic racialism arose as a response to emerging ideas about perceived Anglo-Saxon superiority and the need for a homogeneous white nation. Fredrickson brilliantly develops this idea primarily through a literary analysis of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novels "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Dred." The articulation of romantic racialism explodes any lingering myths regarding abolitionists as rock ribbed anti-racists because it shows that these moral crusaders still argued for forcible removal of blacks from American territory.
Fredrickson addresses what is arguably his book's most serious problem in a new introduction to the 1987 reprint. He confesses that he focused more on what white intellectuals thought about blacks than what blacks said or did about their own situation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Admittedly, the title of the book should blunt some criticism directed towards the author on this point: a title like "The Black Image in the White Mind" leaves little doubt as to what viewpoint the author will take. Still, the author does leave significant gaps in certain places of his book that beg for elaboration. For example, at one point the author refers to a correspondence between Salmon P. Chase and black writer and intellectual Frederick Douglass, a correspondence revealing in succinct detail what Chase thought about racial separation. Surely, Douglass responded to Chase's arguments in some way, but what that response might have been does not appear in the book.
More problematic is the section on Southern Negrophobia, where the author spends a great amount of time discussing how intellectuals in the South at the turn of the century began arguing that the black was a subhuman beast whose greatest social accomplishments consisted of crimes against whites, specifically white women. Was there an enormous explosion in violent crime at this time in this region? If so, what underlying factors contributed to an expansion of crime in the South? The author's analysis of Negrophobia fails to provide any concrete data about the number of violent offenses in the South. Ultimately, Fredrickson resorts to psychohistory to explain the possible reasons behind Negrophobia, arguing that this scurrilous from of racial hatred arose from "a projection of unacknowledged guilt feelings derived from their [white southerners] own brutality towards blacks." Perhaps this claim does have some merit, but Fredrickson cites no sources to back up this particular argument. By looking at Negrophobia relying solely on the sources, Fredrickson might have discovered more relevant reasons for why specific racial ideologies arose when they did. As it stands now, "The Black Image in the White Mind" offers an intriguing, if incomplete, analysis of American intellectual racism.
Excellent History of Racism.......2000-12-19
Fredrickson defines racism as a reasoned theory that posits the "innate and permanent inferiority of nonwhites" (xvii). He argues that racism in some form has plagued American thought throughout the nation's history, and in this volume he traces the different forms it has taken in the period from 1817 to 1914. He thus arranges his study chronologically, progressing methodically through the nineteenth century. Fredrickson begins by showing that the underlying arguments for the colonization movements were based on the recognition of white prejudice in American society. Colonizationitsts argued that black people would never have the opportunity to integrate into the society because of deeply ingrained racial prejudices. The abolitionists answered this position by arguing that whites should be able to overcome their prejudice and achieve the ideal of Christian brotherhood. Then, as more abolitionists based their attack on moral grounds, proponents of slavery searched for ideological justification for their position and argued for the innate racial inequality and permanent inferiority of the black slaves. From this emerged a Herrenvolk democracy in which the creation of a permanent underclass (slaves in this case) protected the radical equality of the higher class (whites). Scientific theories emerge in the 1840s and 1850s to support the position of the innate inferiority of the slaves and gave rise to the theory of polygenesis which holds that only whites descended from Adam, while God created blacks as an inferior species. Romantic racialism also emerged at the same time moving focus from seeming social and intellectual deficiencies of black people and emphasizing their lightheartedness and willingness to serve, qualities of natural Christians. This position finds its fullest expression in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Thus, in the 1860s the more conservative romantic racialists pushed again for colonization, arguing that these "natural Christians" could only flourish back in their native Africa. The ideal of white America had again become a racially homogeneous society. Frederickson argues that Reconstruction was therefore merely a political tool because the attitudes of racial superiority prevailed among whites. This renewed racial superiority then gave rise to a sense of paternalism in the period from 1877 to 1890. At the end of the nineteenth century Darwinian thinking came together with racial superiority to spawn the idea that black people, as the weaker race would be wiped out in this country. Finally, he concludes with a chapter on the accommodation that flows from progressivism which manifests itself as a return to a paternalism and a sense of treating black people with a modicum of decency as the "white man's burden."
Frederickson gives flesh to the above sketch of this argument in his well-documented and carefully nuanced book. The work is an excellent intellectual history of the phenomenon of racism in the United States.
Book Description
Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem"--African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. In Righteous Propagation, Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of racial destiny, demonstrating how it forcefully linked particular visions of gender, conduct, and sexuality to collective well-being.
Mitchell argues that while African Americans did not agree on specific ways to bolster their collective prospects, ideas about racial destiny and progress generally shifted from outward-looking remedies such as emigration to inward-focused debates about intraracial relationships, thereby politicizing the most private aspects of black life and spurring race activists to calcify gender roles, monitor intraracial sexual practices, and promote moral purity. Examining the ideas of well-known elite reformers such as Mary Church Terrell and W. E. B. DuBois, as well as unknown members of the working and aspiring classes, such as James Dubose and Josie Briggs Hall, Mitchell reinterprets black protest and politics and recasts the way we think about black sexuality and progress after Reconstruction.
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- Excellent, Balanced, Extensive Bibliography!
- Excellent, Balanced, Extensive Bibliography!
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The Destiny of the Black Race
Carlisle John Peterson
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The book's main theme is 'Racial Reconciliation' as we work towards a more harmonious relationship within our society at large. Though entitled "The Destiny Of The Black Race", it is not a 'black book" but rather a well-balanced work that look at the 'cause and effect' of racial disharmony and the main pool of contributors to this dilemma. The work also advances the positive and diverse contributions of the black community to the advancement of racial harmony and Western civilization as a whole.It also points out a "Biblical Destiny of The Black Race". It is an excellent and powerful reader! You've got to read it! It is used largely in a diverse cross-section of the nation as a study aid.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent, Balanced, Extensive Bibliography!.......1999-07-20
This is one of the most balanced and well written works that I have ever had the priviledge of reading on this topic. The author does not promote the black race as having superiority over others but clearly shows an equality that is oftentimes sorely missing in society. This is one aspect that gives the book balance and objectivity. Earl Paulk's work, ONE BLOOD, is another important book on this issue. The extensive bibliography gives the reader other resources for further study/reading. A most delightful read! God Bless the Author!
Excellent, Balanced, Extensive Bibliography!.......1999-07-20
This is one of the most balanced and well written works that I have ever had the priviledge of reading on this topic. The author does not promote the black race as having superiority over others but clearly shows an equality that is oftentimes sorely missing in society. This is one aspect that gives the book balance and objectivity. Earl Paulk's work, ONE BLOOD, is another important book on this issue. The extensive bibliography gives the reader other resources for further study/reading. A most delightful read! God Bless the Author!
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