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Red Summer,
314–316

Redefining Realness
(Mock),
500

reformers, antiracist,
8
,
27
,
503–509

reformers, racist,
8

Regents v. Bakke
,
425–428

religion.
See
Christianity

Religious Society of Negroes,
62–63

reparations,
270–271
,
313
,
477

Republican Party

Democrats handing Hayes the presidency,
258
divisive Reconstruction policies,
255
emergence of,
203
Force Bill,
272–274
Liberal Republicans,
251
midterm elections,
206–207
Northern panic over Reconstruction,
238–239
passage of the Fifteenth Amendment,
248–249
rejecting Black suffrage,
244
response to Black Power,
396–398
“southern strategy,”
410–411
The Tragic Era
,
330–332

Reuter, Edward Bryon,
310

reverse discrimination,
239–240

Richards, Michael,
488

Roberts, Dorothy,
475–476

Roberts, John,
489

Robeson, Paul,
355
,
359

Robinson, Jo Ann,
365–366

Robinson, John C.,
232

Robinson, Mamie,
317

Robinson, Randall,
477

Rock, Chris,
465

Rockefeller, John D.,
253

Rocky/Rocky II
(films),
422

Roe v. Wade
,
414–415

Rogers, Renee,
421

Roman Empire, slavery in,
17

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
338

Roosevelt, Franklin,
337–338
,
341

Roosevelt, Theodore,
285
,
290–291
,
296–297

Roots: The Saga of an American Family
(Haley),
422

The Rose Bud
children’s magazine,
171–172

Royal Society (England),
44–46

runaway slaves,
62–63
,
79
,
103–104
,
182–186
,
189–190
,
216–218

Rush, Benjamin,
97–99
,
121–122
,
125–129
,
161–162

Rush, Richard,
146

Rusk, Dean,
375

Russian Revolution,
315

Russwurm, John,
155

Saffin, John,
66–67

Salem witch hunt,
60–63

Sancho, Ignatius,
96–97

Saperstein, Abe,
327–328

Savage Africa
(tract),
268

science,
112
,
126–127
,
209–211

scientific racism,
44–46

anthropologists denouncing,
341–342
autopsy of Sarah Baartman,
139
Boston Philosophical Society,
55
comparative anatomy,
132–134
,
180
,
280–281
defending slavery before Western Europe,
182
eugenics,
3
,
210–211
,
301–302
,
310–311
,
319–321
,
353–354
“extraordinary Negros,”
96–97
human genome project,
474–476
inoculation by African physicians,
71–72
Lombroso’s criminology,
257
Montagu countering,
353
physical anthropology,
332–333
studying and exhibiting uncultivated Barbarians,
94–95
the Great Migration,
329–330
Thomas Jefferson’s racist ideas,
108–110
Volney’s views of Blacks,
112
See also
monogenesis
;
polygenesis

Scottsboro Boys,
335

Seale, Bobby,
397

secession of the South,
211–212

Second Confiscation Act (1861),
217–220

Sedition Act (1798),
129

segregation

desegregation benefiting elites,
399
George Wallace,
410
Great Migration,
308–309
Great Strike of 1877,
258
housing discrimination,
356–357
lunch counter sit-in,
368–369
New South’s defense of,
265–268
Plessy v. Ferguson
,
278–279
Roosevelt crossing the color line,
291
separate and inferior Black facilities,
273–274
urban crime and poverty,
169–170
voluntary and involuntary,
339

segregationists,
2
,
4–5

biological basis of social behavior,
432
biological inequality,
3
Black suffrage,
245
Christianization of slaves,
46
Civil Rights Act,
385
dual-evolution theory,
353–354
FDR’s New Deal,
338–339
human genome project,
475–476
Hume’s natural human hierarchy,
95–96
impact of
The Bell Curve
,
459
Niggerati rejecting,
325–326
Obama as the extraordinary Negro,
483
Obama’s election,
498
Obama’s lecture on race,
493–494
Phillis Wheatley’s writings,
93–94
publication of
Types of Mankind
,
198
Sewall’s battle for freed slaves,
66–67
Supreme Court ruling on desegregation,
489
the myth of Black women’s loose morals,
445
three-fifths clause,
116
uplift suasion,
124–126
Voltaire’s writings,
84

Sellin, Thorsten,
329–330

The Selling of Joseph
(Sewall),
66

Selma, Alabama,
390

Seneca Falls Convention (1848),
191–193

Separate Car Act (Louisiana),
278–279

September
11
, 2001,
477–478

Set It Off
(film),
466

Sewall, Samuel,
66–67

sexism.
See
gender and gender racism
;
women

sexologists,
280

Sexual Racism
(Stember),
418

sexuality

exhibitions of Black women’s buttocks and genitalia,
137–139
Frazier on the Negro family,
342–343
HIV-positive men and women,
449
Jefferson’s affair with Sally Hemings,
117–118
,
129–130
miscegenation,
39
,
41–43
,
67–68
,
117–118
,
120
,
310–311
,
319–320
the claims of Black women’s loose morals,
445
See also
hypersexuality of African people
;
LGBT population
;
women

Shakespeare, William,
34–35
,
37

Shakur, Tupac,
453–454

Shange, Ntozake,
419

Shelley v. Kramer
,
356–357

Sherman, Richard,
502

Sherman, William T.,
230–231

Simons, Peter Paul,
179

Simpson, O. J.,
461

Sims, J. Marion,
185–186

Sister Souljah,
451–452

sit-ins,
368–369

Sketches of the History of Man
(Kames),
101–102

Slaughterhouse Cases
,
253

slave revolts,
69–70
,
103
,
119
,
123
,
131
,
140–141
,
143–144
,
149–150
,
166–167
,
173–174
,
207–208

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