Bederman Enlightenment

What has taken place in this book is a national crime against not only African-Americans, but Native Americans, Black Women, White Women and other non-White groups that had to endure the degradation of White Supremacy masking itself as the Civilized and Cultured.  Obviously, the contributions of all people under the American banner had been vastly overlooked by the period of the late 1800s and the early 1900s.  I believed a lot of this backlash occurred after the end of Reconstruction and the rise of African-American economic independence.  Shamefully, the myth of the Black Brute and Rapist appeared along side the antithetical caricatures of C--n, Sambo, Aunt Jemima, Mammy, and Uncle.  Just like the White Supremacist ideals, on one hand Blacks are menacing savages and on the other hand Blacks are subservient submissives.  Same contradictions as American Slavery, American Freedom.