Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996 by Daryl Michael Scott

Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996

Daryl Michael Scott

296 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and cons...

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