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Mitchell Michele <1965-> |
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Righteous propagation [[electronic resource] ] : African Americans and the politics of racial destiny after Reconstruction / / by Michele Mitchell |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (411 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - History - 1877-1964 |
African Americans - Politics and government |
African Americans - Race identity |
African Americans - Sexual behavior |
Sex role - United States - History |
Sex - Political aspects - United States - History |
Human reproduction - Political aspects - United States - History |
African American intellectuals - History |
African American political activists - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage and Terminology; Prologue. To Better Our Condition One Way or Another: African Americans and the Concept of Racial Destiny; 1. A Great, Grand, & All Important Question: African American Emigration to Liberia; 2. The Black Man's Burden: Imperialism and Racial Manhood; 3. The Strongest, Most Intimate Hope of the Race: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Afro-American Vitality; 4. The Righteous Propagation of the Nation: Conduct, Conflict, and Sexuality; 5. Making the Home Life Measure Up: Environment, Class, and the Healthy Race Household |
6. The Colored Doll Is a Live One!: Material Culture, Black Consciousness, and Cultivation of Intraracial Desire7. A Burden of Responsibility: Gender, ''Miscegenation,'' and Race Type; 8. What a |
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Pure, Healthy, Unified Race Can Accomplish: Collective Reproduction and the Sexual Politics of Black Nationalism; Epilogue. The Crossroads of Destiny; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between 1877 and 1930 African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around "racial destiny," the idea that black Americans formed a collective whose future existence would be determined by the actions of its members. , Michele Mitchell examines the reproductive implications of "racial destiny". |
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