词条 | Charles B. Dew |
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BiographyDew grew up in a white family in St. Petersburg, Florida, which he called "a Jim Crow town to the core". His family had an African-American help, who ate and drank from her own plate and cup, and who used a "grossly unequal" bathroom for her only.{{sfn|Dew|2016|p=166}} In an essay he wrote on the occasion of the publication of The Making of a Racist, he commented that he hadn't crossed the Mason–Dixon line until he went to college in 1954, and that his experiences at Williams College, where he studied history (which "blew [his] assumptions about Confederate glory out of the water") and had black classmates, were formative for his developing a critique of what he termed "collective white blindness".[2] Dew is a descendant of Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846), who was a "passionate apologist" for slavery, and he writes about his family heritage in his 2016 book The Making of a Racist.[3] The book was the result of a self-examination which he said was prompted by his coming across a price list for slaves from 1860: "I thought, how could my white southern ancestors have been complicit in this?", to which the only answers are greed and the belief in white superioity, which Southern boys received "by osmosis".{{sfn|Dew|2016|pp=36, 166}}[1] Dew is married to writer Robb Forman Dew. He graduated from Williams College in 1958 and received his Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University in 1964.[4] Bibliography{{refbegin}}
References1. ^1 2 {{cite news|newspaper=Montgomery Advertiser|date=June 10, 2018|title=Author confronts family's ties to slavery|pages=1D, 4D}} 2. ^{{cite journal|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Unmaking-of-a-Racist/238054|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|accessdate=June 10, 2018|title=The Unmaking of a Racist|date=October 16, 2016|first=Charles B.|last=Dew}} 3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/entertainment/books/article99027847.html#storylink=cpy|accessdate=June 10, 2018|first=John David|last=Smith|date=September 6, 2016|title=Historian examines his past in The Making of a Racist|newspaper=The News & Observer}} 4. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://history.williams.edu/profile/cdew/|title=Charles Dew|publisher=Williams College}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-white-southerner-searches-for-the-source-of-his-familys-racism/2016/09/01/c5456bc6-5f3f-11e6-af8e-54aa2e849447_story.html?noredirect=on|first=Leonard|last=Pitts|authorlink=Leonard Pitts|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=June 10, 2018|date=September 2, 2016|title= A white Southerner searches for the source of his family's racism}} External links
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