| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925. By Mia Bay. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii, 288 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-510045-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-513279-3.)

This excellent volume offers something richer than its title implies, since Mia Bay does not attempt to generalize about some flat undifferentiated white image in a two-dimensional black mind. She presents subtle shadings on a variety of images in the minds of African Americans and, perhaps more significant, chronicles black attitudes about the heritages of African peoples. Bay surveys numerous nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century thinkers, many of whom addressed history from what some present-day theorists might identify as Afrocentric perspectives. Would that it were no longer necessary to correct the naïve misconceptions perpetuated in such works as Malcolm X on Afro-American History (1967) or Yosef ben-Jochannan's screed on TUTANKHAMUN'S African Roots Haley, Et Al, Overlooked!?, published in 1978. It remains, however, sadly necessary for scholars such as Bay to bury the old "house Negro/field Negro" paradigm, which proclaims that supposedly assimilated African Americans have failed to develop critical attitudes toward European civilization. . . .

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