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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814397003321

Titolo

Affect and power [[electronic resource] ] : essays on sex, slavery, race, and religion in appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan / / edited by David J. Libby, Paul Spickard, and Susan Ditto ; introduction by Sheila L. Skemp ; foreword by Charles Joyner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi for the Department of History, University of Mississippi, 2005

ISBN

1-282-94080-5

9786612940804

1-60473-062-5

1-4237-3200-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JordanWinthrop D

LibbyDavid J. <1969->

SpickardPaul R. <1950->

DittoSusan

Disciplina

305.8/00973

Soggetti

Slavery - United States - History

Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History

Sex role - United States - History

Sex - United States - History

Christianity - United States

United States Race relations

United States Religion

United States Civilization

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. 183-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I. SEX; II. SLAVERY; III. RACE; IV. RELIGION; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan published his groundbreaking work White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 and opened up new avenues for thinking about sex, slavery, race, and religion in American culture. Over the course of a forty-year career at



the University of California and the University of Mississippi, he continued to write about these issues and to train others to think in new ways about interactions of race, gender, faith, and power. Written by former students of Jordan, these essays are a tribute to the career of one of America's great thinkers and perhaps the mo