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  • Reimagining the Republic

    Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée

    Collections series Reconstructing America
    Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand (1879) and Bricks without Straw (1880), and for his key role in the civil rights case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), challenging Louisiana’s law segregating railroad cars, Tourgée published more than a ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Untimely Democracy

    The Politics of Progress After Slavery

    par Gregory Laski ...
    From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and ... En savoir plus

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  • Democracies in America

    Keywords for the 19th Century and Today

    Modifié par Gregory Laski, D. Berton Emerson ...
    Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, "democracy" gets wielded ... En savoir plus

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    Democracies in America

    Keywords for the 19th Century and Today

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    11 heure 47 min

    Ask someone their thoughts about "democracy" and you'll get many different responses. Some may presume it a thing once established yet now under threat. Others may believe that democracy has always been compromised by the empowered few. In the contemporary United States, marked by constituencies across the political spectrum believing that their voices have gone unheard, "democracy" gets wielded ... En savoir plus

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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

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  • American Lynching

    A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas.After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously ... En savoir plus

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Mongrel Nation

    The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    Collections series Jeffersonian America
    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of "Did they or didn’t they?" But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize. Mongrel Nation seeks to uncover this complexity, as well as the reasons it is ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    par Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... En savoir plus

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  • Slavery and the American South

    Modifié par Winthrop D. Jordan ...
    In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970s it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In ... En savoir plus

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  • A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

    par Neil Roberts ...
    Collections series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    "A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Disowning Slavery

    Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780–1860

    Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well.Melish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices to ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD