Description |
1 online resource (x, 330 pages) : illustrations |
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E-Duke books scholarly collection
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History
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Ethnicity -- United States -- History
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Civil rights -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Ethnicity.
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Civil rights.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Race relations.
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Burgerrechten.
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Racism.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- History
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United States.
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Verenigde Staten.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Baum, Bruce David, 1960-
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Harris, Duchess.
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ISBN |
9780822392156 |
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0822392151 |
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9786613036445 |
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6613036447 |
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1283036444 |
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9781283036443 |
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