black veiws on whites
...ican Americans know about them.” African Americans have proudly claimed their knowledge on whiteness. “In the World World One era James Weldon Johnson would assert as a ‘fact’ that ‘ colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.” “Hegel saw the slave as living always with the knowledge of the master’s deadly power.“ These claims are very accurate even thought they would be denied by the whites. The denial “exists alongside a profound fear of actually being seen by people of color.” Baldwin stated, “… a vast amount of the energy that goes into what we call the Negro problem is produced by the white man’s desire not to be judged by those who are not white.” Even to our modern day, literary works of African Americans are not being credited. The U.S. professional organization set out a poll that asked members to write out the most important historians in American South, and out of 111 members only 3 named African Americans. The notion of whiteness developed in America and was used as a superiority tool. “Cheryl Harris’s recent ‘ Whiteness as Property’… offers a many-sided account of the ways in which the law and the practice of slave-trading, slaveholding, dispossession of American Indians, Jim Crow, and discriminations in wages and employment have trained whites to expect that their racial status will pay off.” African American studies feel that whiteness was achieved through terror. “We should consider that more than 3,000 lynchings of African Americans between 1890 and the Great Depression included many instances in which thousands and even upwards of 10,000 whites witnessed the horror.” The notion of whiteness was a last resort to try and maintain superio...