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Introduction
PART ONE. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS
1. The Status of Comparative History
2. The Frontier in South African and American History
3. From Exceptionalism to Variability:Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History
4· Planters, Junkers, and Pomeschiki
PART TWO. RACE AND RACISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
5. Understanding Racism: Reflections of a Comparative Historian
6. Race and Empire in Liberal Thought: The
Legacy of Tocqueville
7· Black-White Relations since Emancipation:The Search for a Comparative Perspective
PART THREE. TWENTIETH-CENTURY FREEDOM STRUGGLES
8. Reform and Revolution in American and South African Freedom Struggles
9· Prophets of Black Liberation
1O. Nonviolent Resistance to White Supremacy:The American Civil Rights Movement and the South African Defiance Campaigns
11. From Black Power to Black Consciousness
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George M. Fredrickson is Robinson Professor of United States History at Stanford University, and author of several books, including Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (1995), The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality (1988), The Black Image in the White Mind (1987), and White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1981). He was president of the Organization for American Historians for 1997-98.
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This collection of essays covers issues central to the understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism and the possibilities for justice in contemporary society. It provides an examination of race relations in the USA and South Africa, and looks at comparative history.
