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In ""Black, White, and Southern,"" David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South…
The author asserts that the struggles of Black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their White counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture.
Discusses the representation of race and Aboriginality (chapters 3 and 4); Lemurian novels; racial anxiety in Fevenc's 'The Secret of the Australian Desert', Scott's 'The Last Lemurian', Macdonald's 'The Lost Explorers' and Walker's 'The Silver Queen' - anxiety of identity loss …
"On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men - including traders, soldiers, and government agents - sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they we…
African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her antilynching crusade in the 1890s. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United Stat…
This book explores the links between food, visual and literary culture in the nineteenth-century United States to reveal how eating produces political subjects by justifying the social discourses that create bodily meaning. Using an archive of children's literature, architectura…
"In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas…
Cultures of United States imperialism
by Pease, Donald E., Kaplan, Amy
fromNew Americanists
Cultures of United States imperialism
by Pease, Donald E., Kaplan, Amy
fromNew Americanists
Cultures of United States imperialism
by Pease, Donald E., Kaplan, Amy
fromNew Americanists
Begins to fill the gaping lacuna of imperialism in the standard histories of the US by exploring how US expansion has influenced people of other cultures. The 26 essays focus mostly on Africa and African Americans, but also consider the Philippines, Native Americans, Cuba, Latin…