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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777795303321

Autore

Norrell Robert J (Robert Jefferson)

Titolo

The house I live in [[electronic resource] ] : race in the American century / / Robert J. Norrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-028185-5

1-280-75980-1

0-19-802377-4

1-4294-2048-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

379 pages : illustrations ; 24cm

Disciplina

305.896/073/09

Soggetti

Civil rights movements - United States - History

African Americans - Civil rights - History

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

African Americans - History - 1964-

United States Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The Moving White Line; 2. The New and Improved Negro; 3. The Syncopated Rhythm; 4. The Four Freedoms and the Four Equalities; 5. The Borrowing Time; 6. The Highway Up from Darkness; 7. The Fear of the Negro; 8. The Zero-Sum Society; 9. The Content of Their Character; Epilogue: The Beginning of the Blend; Notes; A Note on Theory and Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Chronicles American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years and sheds new light on the ideologies, from white supremacy to black nationalism, that have sculpted the landscape of race since the Civil War.