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Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, lecturer, writer, and filmmaker.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905, the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas Dixon Jr. (the others are The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor). Chronicling the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a pro-Confederate perspective, it presents the Ku Klux Klan heroically.
- Thomas Dixon
- 1905
His name was Thomas Dixon Jr., and he was the great-granddaddy of white nationalism. Dixon’s stories of virtuous white people victimized by violent and incompetent black people were not...
Existing in close relationship to his glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, Dixon's vilification of African Americans is as prejudiced as any in popular literature. Dixon's African American characters are prone to idleness, drunkenness, and the worst sorts of barbaric violence.
Thomas Dixon, Jr., a North Carolina native, capitalized on a potent sentimentalist approach to racism, but his success as a novelist lay in his welding southern identity, the region's rich heritage and landscape, and ideas of white supremacy.
15. März 2023 · This essay revisits this ongoing debate between Griffith (the filmmaker) and Thomas Dixon (author); it specifically critiques Dixon's novel and reveals his contradictory construction of white, Black, and mixed race characters.
Thomas Dixon Jr. was born January 11, 1864, in Shelby, North Carolina. He is best known for his racist novel The Clansman (1905), which served as the basis for D. W. Griffith’s infamous film The Birth of a Nation (1915).
