Anti Black Prejudice in America

What causes a society to develop and normalize racial hatredand violence?When Anders A. Eklof arrived in Alabama in 1961 as ayoung man from Sweden, he entered a world profoundlydifferent from the one in which he had grown up. Raisedin a society largely free of racial conflict, he wasunprepared for the hostility, segregation, and deepemotional divisions that defined the American Southduring the Civil Rights era.What he witnessed left a lasting impression.Over the following decades, Eklof set out to understandthe historical and psychological forces behind anti-Blackprejudice in the United States. Drawing on extensivehistorical research as well as personal experience, heexamines how racial hostility developed, evolved, andpersisted across four centuries of American history.Anti-Black Prejudice in America explores major forcesthat shaped this history, including:¿ The legacy of slavery and the creation of racialhierarchy¿ The rise of Jim Crow laws and institutionalizedsegregation, systematic discrimination, and lynchings¿ The influence of pseudoscientific racism and theeugenics movement¿ The Civil Rights movement and the upheavals of the1960s¿ The continuing challenges of racial inequality inmodern AmericaCombining historical analysis with a unique personalperspective, Eklof investigates how prejudice canbecome embedded in social institutions and culturalbeliefs, and why its effects continue to shape Americansociety today.This is not a comfortable book. It is a serious and deeplyresearched examination of one of the most troubling andenduring conflicts in American history.