A dreadful deceit : the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America /

In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning social historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived...

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Main Author: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2013]
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