Carl Neumann Degler

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Carl Neumann Degler (born 1921) is an American historian. Degler is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. He is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Emeritus at Stanford University.[1]

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[edit] Career

In 1972, Degler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book Neither Black nor White, a work comparing slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States.

He wrote Out of Our Past, a study of United States history. It is currently utilized in various classrooms and study-chambers throughout the United States, along with Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States; they are considered as presenting conflicting viewpoints and thus optimal for presenting a complete view of American history.

In 1986 Degler was elected President of the American Historical Association.

[edit] Contentions

[edit] American slavery

Degler has argued that racism existed before slavery, and that slavery was brought on by the racist sentiment inherent in European settlers.[2][3]

[edit] Bibliography

Degler's works include:

  • Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (1972)
  • The Other South - Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century (1974)
  • Place Over Time: The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness, (1977)
  • At Odds : Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1981)
  • In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought (1991)

For a full bibliography of Degler's work see http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/cndeglerbibliography.htm

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brennan, Elizabeth A. and Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners, p. 309. Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press. ISBN 1573561118.
  2. ^ Allen, Theodore W. (1994). The Invention of the White Race. Volume I: Racial Oppression and Social Control, p. 5. London, New York: Verso. ISBN 086091660X.
  3. ^ Kolchin, Peter (1993). American Slavery, 1619-1877.

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