Colorphobia is the irrational fear of a particular color or people of a particular color.

History of the term

The term had its origins during the antebellum period in the United States. Frequently, it was cited as the major shortcoming of white abolitionists during the abolition movement by those who were considered its beneficiaries. It therefore most often came into use relating to social relations in the Northern U.S. Frank J. Webb 's 1857 novel "The Garies and their Friends " was the first to address the topic of colorphobia as it relates to race relations of urban areas in the northern United States and was the second novel written by an African-American.

Colorphobia has roots in the antebellum period. Speaker and author Frederick Douglass used the term to describe abolitionists who felt uncomfortable in his presence, William Wells Brown declared colorphobia to be worse in Philadelphia than in New York and [

See also

Negrophobia Afrophobia Pigmentocracy Abolition Emancipation

Bibliography

• Colorphobia: An exposure of the 'White Australia' fallacy by Edward William Foxall
• The American Bible Society and colorphobia by Francis J Grimke
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
• The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
• Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
• Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill
• The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (African American History (Paperback)) by David L. Lewis (Editor), David Levering Lewis (Editor)
• Major Taylor: The Extraordinary Career of a Champion Bicycle Racer by Andrew Ritchie
• Interracial Intimacies : Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by RANDALL KENNEDY
• Philadelphia: A 300-Year History by Russell Weigley
• A History of American Literature by Richard Gray
• William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald H. Grimke (available on Project Gutenberg with an entire chapter entitled [colorphobia]) [gutenberg.org]
• Castiglia, Christopher "Abolition's Racial Interiors and the Making of White Civic Depth"

American Literary History - Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 32-59

External links

• Fun-With-Words.com Phobia Words C-D
• African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, {Vol.08, Num. 4}, Our Civil Rights by Frank J. Webb, Jr.
• The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb (ebook)
• Triumph of equal school rights in Boston...
• Douglass on the Absence of Colorphobia in Paris