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Revue de I'Universile d'Ottawa 10 [1940]: 156-177, and Martin Steins, Das Bild des
Schwarzen in der europaischen Kolonialliteratur 1870-1918 [Frankfurt a/M, 1972}).
4. Edith Sanders, "Hamitic Hypothesis," Journal of African History 10 (1969):
521-532. Harris, Africans and Their History (New York, 1972), pp. 14-15. Sanders
and Graves-Patai are well critiqued by Ephraim Isaac, "Genesis, Judaism and the
'Sons of Ham,'" Slavery and Abolition 1 (1980): 3-17; reprinted in Slaves and Slavery in
Muslim Africa, ed. John R. Willis (London, 1985) 1:75-91.
5. Winthrop Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro,
1550-1812 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1968), pp. 18, 35-37. Jordan's familiarity with
Gossett's work is seen on p. 604 ("Essay on Sources").
6. Charles Lyons, To Wash an Aethiop White: British Ideas about Black /African
Educability, 1530-1960 (New York, 1975); Thomas Peterson, Ham andjapheth: The
Mythic World of Whites in the Antebellum South (Metuchen, NJ and London, 1978);
William Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks,
1530-1880 (Bloomington, IN, 1980); A.C. de C.M. Saunders, A Social History of
Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555 (Cambridge, UK, 1982); Joseph R.
Washington, Anti-Blackness in English Religion, 1500-1800 (New York, 1984).
7. St. Claire Drake, Black Folk Here and There, volume 2 (Los Angeles, 1990), pp.
22—23. Joseph Washington (Anti-Blackness in English Religion, p. 10) makes a similar
claim. On the impact of White over Black, see August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, Black
History and the Historical Profession, 1915—1980 (Urbana, 1986), p. 123. Jordan is even
quoted, incorrectly, to prove that Ham's blackness begins with the Bible (H.L.
Feingold, Zion in America: The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present [New
York, 1.974], p. 86).
8. St. Clair Drake, Black Folk Here and There 2:2, 17-30, 74 and 117; John Ralph
Willis, ed., Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa 1:8.
9. Howard Brackman in his Ph.D. dissertation (UCLA, 1977), "The Ebb and
Flow of Conflict: A History of Black-Jewish Relations Through 1900," pp. 6, 73, 79.
10. Joseph Washington, Anti-Blackness in English Religion, pp. 11 and 15.
11. Gopher, "Blacks and Jews in Historical Interaction: The Biblical/African
Experience," The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 3 (1975): 16;
reprinted in African Presence in Early Asia (New Brunswick, NJ; rev. ed., 1988), p.
185. A few years ago The Washington Post (September 14, 1991; p. B6) ran a story on
Black biblicists and biblical interpretation. The writer reported that "some blacks
believe the Bible was intentionally intepreted in this manner to perpetuate racist ideologies."
This is immediately followed by a rehashing of the rabbinic racism claims
by Charles Gopher. Cain Hope Felder, Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class, and Family
(New York, 1989), p. 38.