Winthrop D. Jordan
Winthrop Donaldson Jordan was an American historian and professor who taught at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Mississippi.
He was widely recognized as a leading scholar on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States.
His most celebrated work, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, published in 1968, brought him significant acclaim, earning the National Book Award in History and Biography and the Bancroft Prize, among other honors.
He also authored The White Man's Burden, further cementing his legacy as an authority on American racial history.
