Baum / Harris Racially Writing the Republic

Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9215-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 341 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Investigates the history of U.S. political thought, dreams, and national identity by foregrounding the debasing role of race and racialized identities in constructions and transformations of what it has meant to be American.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baum, Bruce

Harris, Duchess

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tchen, John Kuo Wei

Janara, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

George Washington: Porcelain, Tea, and Revolution / John Kou Wei Tchen 26

Jefferson's Legacies: Racial Intimacies and American Identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum 44

Tocqueville and Beaumont, Brothers, and Others / Laura Janara 64

"The Sacred Right of Self-Preservation": Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the Struggle for Justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson 81

"Shoot Mr. Lincoln"? / Catherine A. Holland 96

Sarah Winnemucca and the Rewriting of Nation / Cari M. Carpenter 112

The Politics of the Possible: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Crusade for Justice / Patricia A. Schechter 128

Meat vs. Rice (and Pasta): Samuel Gompers and the Republic of White Labor / Gwendolyn Mink, Abridged by Bruce Baum 145

Theodore Roosevelt and the Divided Character of American Nationalism / Gary Gerstle 163

Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement / Dorothy Roberts 196

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept / Joel Olson 214

Displacing Filipinos, Dislocating America: Carlos Bolusan's America Is in the Heart 231

Looking Through Sideny Brustein's Window: Lorraine Hansberry's New Frontier, 1959–1965 / Ben Keppel 247

James Baldwin's "Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" / Bruce Baum 263

Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and racially Righting the Republic / George Lipsitz 281

Bibliography 301

Contributors 321

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Baum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity. Duchess Harris is Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She is the author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton (forthcoming).Duchess Harris is Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She is the author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton (forthcoming).