George M. Fredrickson

Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University. Among other works, he is the author of The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914. New York: Harper and Row, 1971; White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History. New York, Oxford University Press, 1981; Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995; Racism: A Short History. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002.