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Balfour, Nancy. Rev. of Goodbye to Uncle Tom by J. C. Furnas. International Affairs 33.4 (1957): 528-29.
"Mr. Furnas set out to debunk Harriet Beecher Stowe's romantic story of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin; he argues that this book, by its world-wide circulation and the popular dramatization which brought it to hundreds of thousands of people who would never have read it, has for over a century been a disastrous, although often unconscious, influence on almost all approaches to the American Negro. What Mr. Furnas in fact provides is a detailed account of what slavery really was, of the African background, or rather lack of background, of these uncivilized people, of their life and work on the plantations and in the cities of the South, and of their attempts to escape. . . . The main impression given by Mr. Furnas is one of amazement at the progress made by the American Negro in the four generations since the Civil War. After reading his book it is impossible not to feel that Southerners have some excuse for insisting on racial segregation."
"Books: Up from Slavery," Time 25 June 1956.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,824314,00.html
In the most widely distributed review of J. C. Furnas's Goodbye to Uncle Tom, the critic specifically references the Jefferson-Hemings relationship: "Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse: 'The weary statesman for repose hath fled / From halls of council to his Negro's shed, / Where blest he woos some black Aspasia's grace / And dreams of freedom in his slave's embrace.'"
Gadsen, Marie. "Goodbye to Uncle Tom." Journal of Negro Education 26.2 (1957): 162-64.
Review of J. C. Furnas's Goodbye to Uncle Tom: "Mrs. Stowe is guillotined as a hypocrite, literary, social and religious; hypocrisy, nonetheless, is the clinical prescription for a national cancer. How facile it would be, if such rational attempts as Mr. Furnas' Goodbye to Uncle Tom really could 'finally and comprehensively demolish' the 'myths pertaining to the American Negro'; unfortunately, the brood which is 'Uncle Tom's Children' will persist so long as there exists such racism as is abundantly current in mob violence in Clinton, in the imprisonment of Negro clergy in Atlanta, in bombings in Montgomery, in national-origins immigration quotas in our land of democratic ideals, and in apartheid on the continent of the aboriginal black man."
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet. New York: Basic Books: 2003.
Premier African American scholar Gates describes first hearing about Jefferson-Hemings in the November 1954 Ebony article discussed in a barbershop.
Gordon-Reed, Annette. "Jefferson and Biography." A Companion to Thomas Jefferson. Ed. Francis D. Cogliano. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 3-15.
Hulbert, James A. "Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Race Problem." Phylon 17.3 (1956): 306.
Review of J. C. Furnas's Goodbye to Uncle Tom: "To American Negros 'Uncle Tom' symbolizes cringing and servility. It is the eagerness on the part of a Negro, motivated by desire of some personal gain or security, to please a white person at the sacrifice of dignity and manhood. 'Uncletomism' is not as prevalent today as formerly, with the new surge of group realization, but it is a practice extending back to slavery which became crystallized as an effective behavior mechanism in a complex interracial system. In this work Mr. Furnas has taken up mighty arms on behalf of the Negro, democracy, and common sense. It is his thesis that the Abolitionist classic, Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' recently included in Robert Downs' "Books that Changed the World," has been chiefly responsible for the conception and perpetuation of the most prevalent and damning stereotypes in the thinking of whites about Negroes. . . . The book leads us to hope that some day we may be able to dismiss unreasonable prejudice which expresses itself in race repression, and Negro fears which arise from such repression. But there is a slang expression of Negroes that is appropriate: 'Every goodbye aint gone!'"
Hyland, William G., Jr. Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson: The Life of Dumas Malone. Washington: Potomac Books, 2013.
McKittrick, Eric. "The View from Jefferson's Camp." New York Review of Books 17 December 1970.
Reviewing books by Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson, both Jefferson defenders, McKittrick acknowledges the difficulty of independent vision when, for instance, for a scholar like Malone Jefferson is a "friend." McKittrick seems to accept the version that makes Peter Carr the culprit, but he pushes further to see "the psychosexual dilemma of an entire society regarding slavery, reflected in that undergone by the most eminent citizen of Virginia and one of the most enlightened men of his time."
Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper & brothers, 1944.
Parkinson, Robert G. "First from the Right: Massive Resistance and the Image of Thomas Jefferson in the 1950s." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 112.1 (2004): 2-35.
Presents a detailed outline and analysis of the three stages in which Southern segregationists utilized various aspects of Thomas Jefferson's ideology in an attempt to resist racial integration during the 1950s. Parkinson explains that Jefferson was brought into the dialogue when Southern Democrats (known as "Dixiecrats") fearing the effects of civil rights looked for a way to tactfully resist racial integration without appearing racist. Claiming to have an intimate understanding of the "true" Jefferson and how he would have behaved in the 1950s, Segregationist Dixiecrats first emphasized his stress on the value of state rights and launched an "interposition" campaign in which they maintained that they were objecting to the Supreme Court's interference in state government rather than the actual concept of racial integration. The Dixiecrat's second tactic used to maintain segregation was, according to Parkinson, claiming that Thomas Jefferson's warning of a tyrannical judicial government had manifested itself in the form of Chief Justice Earl Warren's ruling on integration. Their third and final approach, Parkinson argues, was to emphasize Jefferson's white supremacist beliefs featured in his Notes on the State of Virginia and argue that he would still oppose integration even in the 1950s. Parkinson concludes that while the Dixiecrats' arguments may have been polemical, they were nonetheless largely based in fact and no less legitimate than those of scholars who claimed to understand the "true" and outstandingly moral Jefferson, either. This article illuminates the turbulent social climate which brought Jefferson's views on slavery, and with them the Hemings controversy, back on center stage.
Spencer, Samuel. Rev. of Goodbye to Uncle Tom by J. C. Furnas. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 64.4 (1956): 501-2.
"The book's chief service is to destroy for the general public many myths of the Negro present which Mrs. Stowe and more responsible Americans -- Horace Mann, James Ford Rhodes, and even Thomas Jefferson, to name several -- helped etch into the white American's concept of the Negro. Mr. Furnas puts under the microscope such attributed Negro characteristics as peculiar odor, talent for music, venereal vitality, joviality, and inability to learn. The essence of his findings, supported by competent scholars, is that lack of knowledge prevents a denial of the possibility of racial inferiority, but that any possible inferiority 'cannot be marked enough to make any common-sense difference in society's treatment' of Negroes."
Stampp, Kenneth. Rev. of Goodbye to Uncle Tom by J. C. Furnas. Journal of Southern History 23.1 (1957): 124-25.
"Now, it is perfectly true that Mrs. Stowe had some absurd notions about the innate racial qualities of Negroes, and they are painfully evident in Uncle Tom's Cabin. But these notions were not invented by Mrs. Stowe, as Furnas knows well enough. They were shared by the great majority of her contemporaries, including a good number of abolitionists. To blame her for their stubborn survival in many quarters is as absurd as the notions themselves. Merely to ask the question whether there would be less prejudice today if Mrs. Stowe's century-old novel had never been written is to answer it. The remaining sections of Goodbye to Uncle Tom are much better. They include as good a brief analysis of ante bellum Southern slavery as can be found anywhere, and an absorbing and reasonably accurate account of the Underground Railroad."