The paperback edition of Jordan's classic and award-winning work on the history of American race relations. "The author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience; skepticism; thoroughness; and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made.--C. Vann Woodward; New York Times Book Review "A monumental work of scholarship; brilliant in conception and execution; humane; convincing; informed by warmth and wit; illuminating reading for all those concerned with America's tragedy. . . . As an historian with keen psychological insights into his material; Winthrop Jordan is uniquely qualified to illuminate America's anguished dilemma.--Publishers Weekly"[A] rare thing: an original contribution to an important subject. In helping us understand today's racial crisis; Jordan has ideally fulfilled the historian's function of investigating the past in order to enlighten the present.--The judges for the 1969 National Book Award for History and Biography "This monumental study is a tremendously important block; fascinating and appalling; of American social and cultural history. . . . Though the study was begun years before the current civil rights agitation; it is quite indispensable for a full appreciation of the realities and wellsprings and the dilemmas of the contemporary struggle.--The Phi Beta Kappa Senate award committee for the 1968 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award"White Over Black will stand as a landmark in the historiography of this generation. Its richness and insight; its sensitive; penetrating analysis of the unspoken as well as the explicit; its union of breadth with depth; make it a brilliant achievement.--Richard D. Brown; New England Quarterly
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Excellent BookBy JerseyGirlErik Gellman's book is a must read for anyone interested in social movements; race; and labor. The book tells the story of the National Negro Congress; a militant civil rights organization; which played a key role in labor organizing and civil rights activism during the 1930s and 1940s. Gellman is an excellent writer who brings these activists "to life" in a story that moves across the United States; and to a some extent; the globe. It's packed with a ton of fascinating (and sometimes disheartening) stories of how members of the interracial NNC fought to end Jim Crow and white supremacy.
