Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

Contents

vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION: The American Race Problem 1 1 20 AN ORDERLY BRAIN 2 26 ESSENTIALS OF GREATNESS 3 37 NO TWILIGHT ZONE 4 46 FOOD FOR THE HUMAN MIND 5 62 THE BUSINESS OF RAISING COTTON 6 76 CONVICTIONS OF SOUTHERN MEN 7 91 MY LIFE WORK 8 104 I AM NOT A NEGROPHOBIST 9 131 DESTRUCTIVE PROPENSITY viii CONTENTS 10 161 FRANK, WITHOUT BEING OFFENSIVE 11 185 SEVERE AND DISCRIMINATING CRITICISM 12 211 A SLAVE TO BUSINESS 13 233 IN PUBLIC DUTY 14 250 AND IN PRIVATE THINKING Appendix A: Verification of Stone’s Authorship of Editorials in the Greenville Times 273 Appendix B: Verification of Stone’s Annotations 276 Appendix C: Reconciling Stone’s Books with His Collections 279 Appendix D: Should the N in Negro Be Capitalized? 281 Appendix E: Stone’s Letter to LeRoy Percy 285 Bibliography 287 Index 309 Illustrations follow page 160 ...