Racially writing the republic : racists, race rebels, and transformations of American identity / edited by Bruce Baum and Duchess Harris.

Other author Baum, Bruce David, 1960-
Other author Harris, Duchess.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionx, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009010101
ISBN9780822344353 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822344351 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822344476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822344475 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E184.A1 R32452 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold