Open wound : the long view of race in America / / William McKee Evans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818302903321
• Autore: Evans William McKee
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-283-06386-7; 9786613063861; 0-252-09114-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.0496073
• Soggetti: African Americans - History; African Americans - Southern States - History; African Americans - Civil rights - History; Racism - United States - History; United States Race relations; Southern States Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-320) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Interpretive Overview -- Prologue: Race and the Human Race -- PART 1 The Colonial Period -- 1. How the American Racial System Began: Atlantic Slavery Becomes Market-Driven and Color-Defined -- 2. Anglo Americans Adopt the Atlantic Racial System -- 3. The Construction of Planter Hegemony, 1676-1776 -- 4. The Era of the American Revolution: The Challenge to Slavery and the Compromise -- PART 2 The Antebellum Republic -- 5. The Old South's Triumph -- 6. The Old South's Crisis and the Emergence of the White Solidarity Myth -- 7. Emancipated but Black: Freedom in the Free States -- 8. The Planter and the "Wage Slave": A Reactionary Alliance -- 9. King Cotton's Jesters: The Minstrel Show Interprets Race for the White Working Class -- The War of the Cabins: The Struggle for the Soul of the "Common Man -- PART 3 The Racial System Challenged and Revised -- 11. The Republican Revolution and the Struggle for a "New Birth of Freedom -- 12. Reconstruction: The Radical Challenge, 1865-77 -- 13. Between Slavery and Freedom: The Conservative Quest for a ; Halfway House -- PART 4 The Racial System in a Rising Superpower -- 14. The Age of Segregation at Its Zenith: The Racial System in a World of Colonialism -- 15. Radical Challenge, Liberal Reform: African Americans Gain New Allies -- 16. The American Century, the American Dilemma -- 17. The Black Freedom Movement -- 18. The Racial System in the Age of Corporate Globalism, Technological Revolution, and Environmental Crisis -- Notes -- Index.