George M Fredrickson

Biographic Data

ID78957
NAMEGeorge M Fredrickson
GIVEN NAMESGeorge M
FAMILY NAMEFredrickson
SIGNATUREFREDRICKSON G M
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS108
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX6

  • Racism, History of

    Open AccessGeorge M FredricksonCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Racism: A Short History

    George M Fredrickson, Albert CamarilloBOOKRacism2015

    With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present. Beginning with the medieval antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity, he traces the spread of racist thinking in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. And he examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century roma…

  • Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism

    George M FredricksonBOOKDiverse Nations2015Cited by: 2

    One of the world's leading historians of race relations, George Fredrickson in his newest book probes the history of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States and other parts of the world. Diverse Nations explores recent interpretations of slavery and race relations in the United States and introduces comparative perspectives on Europe, South Africa, and Brazil. Notably, the book features groundbreaking work comparing ethnoracial pluralism…

  • Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism

    George M FredricksonBOOKDiverse Nations2015

    Introduction Part One: Perspectives on Ethnoracial Diversity in the United States Chapter 1: Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective Chapter 2: The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States Chapter 3: America's Diversity in Comparative Perspective Chapter 4: John Higham's Plural America Part Two: Slavery and Racism: Historiographic Interventions Chapter 5: The Skeleton in the Closet Chapter 6: They…

  • Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of White Supremacy

    George M FredricksonARTICLESafundi2006

    The author recounts the development of his interest in comparing U.S. and South African histories, and how a preliminary conference presentation in 1972 eventually expanded to become White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History (1981). He addresses criticisms of the work and concludes with thoughts on the state of comparative studies today

  • Diverse republics: French & American responses to racial pluralism

    Open AccessGeorge M FredricksonARTICLEDaedalus2005Cited by: 2

    Daedalus Winter 2005 At 1⁄2rst glance, a comparison of French and American responses to ethnic and racial diversity may seem arbitrary and unproductive. One response emerges from an old European country with more than a thousand years of continuous existence, the other from a country formed by European settlement and then constituted as a nation scarcely two centuries ago. To avoid turning a historical comparison between France and the United Sta…

  • Mulattoes andmétis. Attitudes toward miscegenation in the United States and France since the seventeenth century

    Open AccessGeorge M FredricksonARTICLEInternational Social Science…2005Cited by: 6References: 8

    This essay surveys and compares American and French attitudes toward miscegenation ormétissagesince the extensive contacts with non-European peoples that began in the Atlantic world of the seventeenth century. It develops a typology of possible responses to such race mixture and argues that the English colonies that became the United States quickly developed a highly restrictive attitude toward racial intermarriage, especially between blacks and …

  • Black Hearts and Monsters of the Mind: Race and Identity in Antebellum America

    Open AccessGeorge M FredricksonARTICLEModern Intellectual History2004

    Bruce Dain, A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) Patrick Rael, Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) John Stauffer, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionism and the Transformation of Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)

  • Racism: A Short History

    George J Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • The Metaphysical Club

    George M Fredrickson, Louis MenandARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

  • Race and Racism in Historical Perspective: Comparing the United States, South Africa, and Brazil

    George M FredricksonCHAPTERBeyond Racism2001

  • Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States

    Derrick Bell, Nancy Birdsall et al.BOOKBeyond Racism2001Cited by: 11

  • Les notions de race et d’empire dans la pensée libérale: L’héritage de Tocqueville

    George M Fredrickson, George FredricksonARTICLEThe Tocqueville Review/La revue…2001

    La réévaluation, à la hausse, des contributions théoriques d'Alexis de Tocqueville en matière de société et de politique a soulevé moins d'intérêt aux États-Unis que d'autres modes intellectuelles parisiennes des trente dernières années. Le fait pour les intellectuels français d'avoir répudié Marx après avoir découvert tardivement la réalité du goulag soviétique a été à l'origine de leur respect croissant pour le type particulier de libéralisme i…

  • Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps

    George M FredricksonARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2001

    Book Review| April 01 2001 Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps, William Dusinberre. George M. Fredrickson George M. Fredrickson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (3): 164–165. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502728 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Georg…

  • The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements

    John W Cell, George M FredricksonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

  • Race Matters

    Courtney Jung, George M Fredrickson et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1999Cited by: 4

  • The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements

    Vivian Bickford-Smith, Vivian Bickford‐smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements. By George M. Fredrickson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. viii, 241 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-520-20996-6.) Get access Vivian Bickford-Smith Vivian Bickford-Smith University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3,…

  • Presidential Address: America's Diversity in Comparative Perspective

    George M FredricksonARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 5

    Journal Article America's Diversity in Comparative Perspective Get access George M. Fredrickson George M. Fredrickson Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 859–875, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567214 Published: 01 December 1998

  • The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements

    R L Watson, George M FredricksonARTICLEThe International Journal of…1998

  • George M. Fredrickson

    George M FredricksonARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article George M. Fredrickson Get access George M. Fredrickson George M. Fredrickson Edwin E. Robinson Professor of United States History Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1257–1258, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/83.4.1257 Published: 01 March 1997

  • White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History

    Kathleen M Blee, Kathleen Blee et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa

    Frederick Cooper, Faith Cooper et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1996

  • Black Liberation: A Comparative History Of Black Ideologies In The United States And South Africa

    George M FredricksonBOOKBlack liberation1995

    When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called it “one of the most brilliant and successful studies in comparative history ever written.” The book was honored with the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Merle Curti Award, and a jury nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Now comes the sequel to t…

  • From Exceptionalism to Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History

    George M FredricksonARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 15

    Journal Article From Exceptionalism to Variability: Recent Developments in Cross-National Comparative History Get access George M. Fredrickson George M. Fredrickson Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States history Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 587–604, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082188 Published: 01 September 199…

  • Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word.

    George M Fredrickson, Celeste Michelle Condit et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1994

    Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In Crafting Equality, Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word equality has been forged in the day-to-day pragmatics of public discourse. Drawing upon little studied speeches, newspapers, magazines, and other public discourse, C…