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Winthrop Donaldson Jordan (November 11, 1931 – February 23, 2007) was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States. Jordan is best known for his book ''White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812'',〔Jordan, ''Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968).〕 published in 1968, which earned the National Book Award in History and Biography,〔 ("National Book Awards – 1969" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-17.〕 the Bancroft Prize, and other honors. Jordan’s assertion in ''White Over Black'' that English perceptions about color, Christianity, manners, sexuality, and social hierarchy contributed to their "unthinking decision" to commence the trans-Atlantic slave trade and crystallized by the late eighteenth century into a race-based justification for chattel slavery, had a profound impact on historians’ understanding of both slavery and racism. The book’s erudite discussion of inter-racial sex is credited with inspiring serious scholarly inquiry into that topic—particularly into the relationship between president Thomas Jefferson and his slave named Sally Hemings. In 1993, Jordan won a second Bancroft Prize for ''Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy''.〔Jordan, Winthrop D. ''Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993)〕 In this work, Jordan brought to light details of a previously unstudied slave revolt near Natchez, Mississippi. ==Early life and education== Jordan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to a long line of scholars and liberal thinkers. He was the son of Henry Donaldson Jordan, a professor of 19th-century British and American politics at Clark University, and Lucretia Mott Churchill, great-great-granddaughter of the Quaker abolitionists and women's rights advocates James and Lucretia Coffin Mott. One of Jordan's great uncles, Edward Needles Hallowell, was a commanding officer of the celebrated Civil War African-American infantry regiment the 54th Massachusetts of the United States Colored Troops. As a young man, Jordan attended the prestigious Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts before going on to receive an A.B. in social relations from Harvard University in 1953, an M.A. in history from Clark University in 1957, and a Ph.D. in history in 1960 from Brown University, which later recognized him as a distinguished alumnus. Jordan's doctoral dissertation formed the foundation of what became his master work ''White Over Black''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winthrop Jordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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