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  • Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    par Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD

  • Mightier than the Sword

    Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America

    “Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New YorkerIn this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Help Me to Find My People

    The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

    Collections series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The N Word

    Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

    par Jabari Asim ...
    A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the "nigger." In a seminal but now ... En savoir plus

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    par Eric Lott ...
    Collections series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... En savoir plus

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  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

    par Julia A. Stern ...
    A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated ... En savoir plus

    $73.69 CAD

  • Closer to Freedom

    Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

    Collections series Gender and American Culture
    Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women. In her investigation of the movement of bodies, objects, and information, ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Teaching White Supremacy

    America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity

    par Donald Yacovone ...
    **A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter.“The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University“Stunning, timely . . . an achievement ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

    A History of Southern Identity

    par James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD