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Racially writing the republic : racists, race rebels, and transformations of American identity

Title
Racially writing the republic : racists, race rebels, and transformations of American identity / edited by Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Baum, Bruce David, 1960-
  • Harris, Duchess.
Description
x, 330 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Racism > United States > History
  • Ethnicity > United States > History
  • Civil rights > United States
  • Rassenverhoudingen
  • Burgerrechten
  • Geschiedschrijving
  • United States > History
  • Verenigde Staten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
George Washington : porcelain, tea, and revolution / John Kuo Wei Tchen -- Jefferson's legacies : racial intimacies and American identity / Duchess Harris and Bruce Baum -- Tocqueville and Beaumont, brothers and others / Laura Janara -- "The sacred right of self-preservation" : Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and the struggle for justice in Texas / Jerry Thompson -- "Shoot Mr. Lincoln?" / Catherine A. Holland -- Sarah Winnemucca and the rewriting of nation / Cari M. Carpenter -- The politics of the possible : Ida B. Wells-Barnett's crusade for justice / Patricia A. Schechter -- Meat vs. rice (and pasta) : Samuel Gompers and the republic of white labor / Gwendolyn Mink, abridged by Bruce Baum -- Theodore Roosevelt and the divided character of American nationalism / Gary Gerstle -- Margaret Sanger and the racial origins of the birth control movement / Dorothy Roberts -- W. E. B. du Bois and the race concept / Joel Olson -- Displacing Filipinos, dislocating America : Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Allan Punzalan Isaac -- Looking through Sidney Brustein's window : Lorraine Hansberry's new frontier, 1959/1965 / Ben Keppel -- James Baldwin's "discovery of what it means to be an American" / Bruce Baum -- Afterword : racially writing the republic and racially righting the republic / George Lipsitz.
ISBN
  • 9780822344353 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822344351 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822344476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822344475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009010101
OCLC
  • ocn316736546
  • 316736546
  • SCSB-5484639
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries