The White image in the Black mind African-American ideas about white people, 1830-1925 - Bay, Mia (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index
"Of one blood God created all the nations of men" : African-Americans respond to the rise of ideological racism, 1789-1830 -- The Redeemer race and the angry Saxon : race, gender, and White people in antebellum Black ethnology -- "What shall we do with the White people?" : Whites in postbellum Black thought -- "Us is human flesh" : race and humanity in Black folk thought -- "Devils and good people walking de road at de same time" : White people in Black folk thought -- "A new Negro for a new century" : Black racial ideology, 1900-1925
Historical studies of white racial thought have focused on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study examines the reverse - black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories